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Connecticut School Document 



No 1— 1908 



(WHOLE NUMBER -30a) 



Laws relating to schools 




1908 






r/W ■' l/' ^M^-*^ ' ^ 



MEMBERS 



STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 



908 



RoLLiN S Woodruff Governor . 
Everett J Lake Lieut. -Governor 
William H Palmer 
George M Carrington 
William G Sumner 
Edward D Robbins 



New Haven 

Hartford 

Norwich 

Winsted 

New Haven 

Wethersfield 



Charles D Hine Secretary Hartford 
Asahel J Wright Chief Clerk Hartford 

OFFICE 

Room 42 Capitol Hartford 



[Substitute for House Joint Resolution No. 133] 
[20] 

CONCERNING A COMPILATION OF THE LAWS RELATING 
TO EDUCATION 

Resolved by this Assembly: That the secretary of the state board 
of education be and he is hereby authorized to compile and cause to be 
printed for distribution twenty-five hundred copies of the laws relating 
to education, including such laws relating thereto as shall be enacted 
at the present session of the general assembly. 

Approved, March 14, 1907. 



1908 



SEP 16. m7 



V 






(K 



NOTE 



P. 



This compilation includes all sections of the General Statutes of 
1902 and later public acts pertaining to public schools and the duties 
of school officers. 

Special Acts, under which several towns and districts are organ- 
ized, are also given, pages 94-1 17- 

At the margin of each section will be found the number of the same 
section in the General Statutes. 



CONTENTS 





Page 


Constitution . . . . . . . ' . 


2 


State Board of Education . . . 


3 


Normal schools ....... 


6 


Instruction, employment, and attendance of children 


8 


Duties of towns ....... 


13 


Transfer of the obligations and property of school societies to 




towns ........ 


19 


High schools ........ 


21 


Evening schools . . , . 


24 


Trade schools ........ 


25 


Schools at temporary homes . . . 


27 


Town school officers ....... 


30 


Supervision of schools ....... 


40 


School districts ........ 


41 


School district taxes ....... 


• 52 


District committees ...... 


55 


Consolidation of school districts . . 


56 


Teachers . . . . . . . . 


^Z 


School libraries and philosophical apparatus 


65 


Support of public schools ..... 


67 


Town deposit fund . . . . . 


75 


Public libraries ....... 


77 


Elections and electors . . . . 


80 


Health, sanitation, and safety .... 


82 


Care and reformation of children .... 


87 


Temporary county homes . . . .' • 


87 


Connecticut school for boys . . . . 


88 


Industrial school for girls .... 


89 


Imbecile children ....... 


91 


Crimes ........ 


92 


Licenses ........ 


94 


Special Acts ....... 


94 


Ansonia . . . . ' . 


94 


Bridgeport ....... 


96 


Danbury . . . . 


97 


Derby . 


. 98 


Manchester, ninth district . . ■ . 


100 


Naugatuck ....... 


lOI 


New Britain ...... 


102 


New Haven ...... 


103 


New London ...... 


106 


Norwalk ....... 


107 


Norwich, Falls district ..... 


. 107 


Norwich, Greenville district .... 


109 


Orange, Union district ..... 


III 


Waterbury . . . . . . . 


112 


Windham ....... 


. 116 



CONSTITUTION OF CONNECTICUT 

[article eight] 



Of Education 

§ I The charter of Yale College, as modified by agree- 
ment with the corporation thereof, in pursuance of an act of 
the General Assembly, passed in May, 1792, is hereby con- 
firmed. , 11 • 

§ 2 The fund, called the School Fund-, shaU remam a 
perpetual fund, the interest of which shall be inviolably appro- 
priated to the support and encouragement of the public or 
common schools throughout the state, and for the equal benefit 
of all the peoDle thereof. The value and amount of said fund 
shall, as soon as practicable, be ascertained in such manner as 
the General Assembly may prescribe, published and recorded 
in the Comptroller's office ; and no law shall ever be made au- 
thorizing said fund to be diverted to any other use than the 
encouragement and support of public or common schools 
among the several school societies, as justice and equity shall 
require. 



LAWS RELATING TO SCHOOLS 



Chapter 1 



State Board of Education 



General Statutes Chapter 123 page 557 



§ I The state board of education shall consist of seven Q^sec. nii 
members, of whom three shall constitute a quorum. The I819 ises isss 

,. 11 r 1 1884 1837 

governor, lieutenant-governor, and the secretary 01 the state Revises 
board of education shall be ex oMcio members of said board. 1889 ch 125 
The general assembly, on or before the first day of July, at 1395 ch 227 
each regular session, shall appoint two members of said board, how constitu- 
one for the term of- four years from the first of July of the year 
of his appointment and one for four years from the first of 
July of the year next after his appointment. Of the four mem- 
bers so appointed by the general assembly one shall be from 
each congressional district.^ 

Vacancies arising during a regular session of the general vacancies 
assembly shall be filled by appointment by the general as- 
sembly. Vacancies not filled by the general assembly shall be 
filled by appointment by the governor and lieutenant-governor. 

The board shall appoint a secretary, who shall perform Secretary 
such services as the board may prescribe, and who shall be paid 
such salary as the board may determine. 

The board shall have power to hire necessary clerks, who cierks 
shall assist the secretary and shall perform such duties as the 
board or the secretary shall prescribe. 

§ 2 The board shall have general supervision and control ossecnn 
of the educational interests of the state ; rfev/^*;^ 

May direct what books shall be used in all its schools, but 
shall not direct any book to be changed oftener than once in 
five years ; ^ 

' The members are paid their necessary expenses Gen Stat § 48 11 
* §§ III, 125 



Teacher^' 
inga 



Duties Shall prescribe the form of registers^ to be kept in said 

schools and the form of blanks and inquiries for the returns- to 
be made by the various school boards and committees ; 

Shall keep informed as to the condition and progress of the 
public schools in the state ; 

And shall seek to improve the methods and promote the 
efficiency of teaching therein, by holding, at convenient places 
in the state, meetings of teachers and school officers, for the 
purpose of instructing in the best modes of administering, 
governing, and teaching public schools, and by such otlier 
means as they shall deem appropriate ; but the expenses in- 
curred in such meetings shall not exceed the sum of three 
thousand dollars in any year. 

Said board shall, on or before the Monday after the first 
Wednesday in January in each year, submit to the governor 

Report a report containing a printed abstract of said returns, a de- 

tailed statement of the doings of the board, and an account 
of the condition of the public schools, of the amount and quality 
of instruction therein, and such other information as will ap- 
prise the general assembly of the true condition, progress, and 
needs of public education.^ 

* Registers are supplied to public and private schools There is a special 
form for evening schools 

Private schools must keep prescribed register § 20 
For duties of teachers in connection vs^ith registers see § 215 
^ Returns to be made to state board of education see § 113 
a .reports of school visitors §113 

including names of teachers and committees § 124 
b district reports by board of education § 62 
reports of evening schools § 79 
reports of private schools § 20 
reports of eyesight tests § 5 

number and names of children attending non-local high schools § 70 
number and names of children conveyed to non-local high schools 

§74 
salaries of district superintendents § 131 
average attendance in certain schools § 226 
Blanks are supplied for all above returns and for reports of district commit- 
tees to school visitors § 187 

^ Other powers and duties of the board not enumerated in this chapter are to 
a enforce law relating to attendance at evening schools § 78 
b enforce law relating to employment of children § 27 

investigate and grant certificates of age in certain cases § 25 
c appoint public library committee § 262 
d order sanitary changes in schoolhouses § 280 
e examine teachers for county homes and appoint acting visitor for 

said schools § 90 
/ relieve towns from maintaining evening schools §81 
g appoint agents to act as superintendents in certain towns § I33 
h approve high schools in certain cases § 68 apply to comptroller 

for high school grant i^ 7° 
i examine incorporated high schools and academies § 71 
approve high schools to which children are conveyed § 72 
apply to comptroller for high school conveyance grant § 74 



J 



§ 3 The duties of citizenship shall be taught in the pub- i903 ch 96 
lie schools. The state board of education shall prepare and i??ti«8of 

,. ., 11 1. r -1 citizenship 

distribute to every school an outline of questions and sug- 
gestions relating to said subject, and said outline may be used 
in said schools. 

§ 4 The state board of education may, upon public ex- GSsecnue 
amination in such branches and upon such terms as it may Rev 1888^3222 
prescribe, grant a certificate of qualification to teach in any is^s ch 135 
public school in the state, and may revoke the same. The cer- tf^Jates^^' '^^^ 
tificate of qualification issued under this section shall be ac- 
cepted by boards of school visitors, boards of education, and 
town school committees in lieu of any other examination.^ 

§ 5 The state board of education shall prepare or cause as sec 2251 
to be prepared suitable test cards and blanks to be used in ^/g^gVcVlo 
testing the eyesight of the pupils in public schools, and shall Eyegij/ht of 
furnish the same, together v^^ith all necessary instructions for test^^'^ ^^ ^^ 
their use, free of expense, to every school in the state. The 
superintendent, principal, or teacher, in every school, during the 
fall term in the year 1904 and triennially thereafter, shall test 
the eyesight of all pupils under his charge according to the 
instructions furnished, and shall notify in writing the parent 
or guardian of every pupil who shall be found to have any de- 
fect of vision or disease of the eyes, with a brief statement of 
such defect or disease, and shall make written report of all 
such cases to the state board of education. 

§ 6 The board may appoint an agent to secure the ob- g ssec 211s 
servance of the laws relating to the instruction of children, and ^ Ao^o^^cwio 
such agent shall make written report of his work to the sec- Appointment of 
retary semiannually.^ ^g*^°t 

§ 7 It shall be the duty of the state board of education, as sec mi 
and the school visitors, boards of education, and town school p^ev^ilggM^ss 
committees to enforce §§23, 24, and 25, and for that pur- i893ch227§6 
pose the state board of education may appoint agents, under chUdTabor^aw 
its supervision and control, for terms of not more than one 
year, who shall be paid not to exceed five dollars a day for 
time actually employed and necessary expenses, and whose ac- 
counts shall be approved by said board and audited by the 
comptroller. The agents so appointed may be directed by said 
board to enforce the provisions of the law requiring the attend- 

k approve superintendents in certain cases §§ 132 133 
/ apply to comptroller for state average attendance grant § 226 
m make estimates Gen Stat §§ 63 64 
n make reports Gen Stat §§ 199 203 
' § 211 : see §§ 67 118 195 

• * May inspect certificates of age § 24, and registers of private schools § 20, 
and if school accommodations are not supplied by towns appeal to selectmen § 49 



ance of children at school^ and to perform any duties necessary 

or proper for the due execution of the duties and powers of the 

board.^ 

9 8 secstuu § 8 The state board of education shall keep an account of 

1856 1867 1869 the moncy drawn and paid out for school libraries and philo- 

Rev 1888 §2230 sophical apparatus pursuant to chapter xvi, and the comp- 

HbrS^grant trollcr shall annually audit such account.^ 

GSsecmu § 9 ^^^^ board, may expend such sum as may be neces- 

18651883 sary to perform the duties and execute the powers conferred 

Rev 1888 §2099 v j i n • n £1 -^i ^i i. n 

upon it, and shall semiannually nle with the comptroller a cer- 

Expenditures tificd accouut of all statc money received and expended during 

the preceding half year/ which account shall be audited by the 

comptroller. All orders for drawing state money shall be 

signed by the secretary and countersigned by a duly authorized 

committee of the board. 

GS seems § lo In all cases when a school in any district has been 

Revi*^§^45 ^^ sh^&\\ be kept during a portion of the sdhool year, but not 

according to law,^ or when for any other cause there has been or 

Forfeitures may shall be a forfeiture of moneys accruing from the school fund 

or annual state appropriation that would otherwise have been 

paid to any town or school district, the secretary of the state 

board of education shall, on application from such town or 

school district, examine into the facts of the case, and decide, 

according to equity, on the right of the applicants to receive 

the money so forfeited ; and if he decides in favor of such 

right, and so certifies to the comptroller, the same shall be paid 

as if no forfeiture had occurred. 

G3secst70 § II The secretary of the state board of education shall 

annually, in January, give to the comptroller, in writing, a list 

of the towns and districts which have incurred the forfeiture 

be reported''" described in § 113, with the percentage of forfeiture in each 

case ; and the comptroller, in making payment of school moneys 

aforesaid, shall deduct the amount of money which each town 

or district shall have forfeited under the provisions of said 

section. 



Normal Schools 

GSeecssso § 12 The state board of education shall maintain normal 

^^^issfmF^ schools as seminaries for training teachers in the art of in- 
^889^h?8^^ structing and governing in the public schools of this state, at 

' Chap ii 

^ May inspect certificates of age § 24, and registers of private schools §^20, 
and if school accommodations are not supplied by towns appeal to selectmen § 49 
^ page ("6 
* The fiscal year ends September 30, Gen Stat § 182 ^ § 44 



1883 
Rev 1888 §3147 

Forfeitures to 



1893 ch- 315 



the places where such schools are legally established, and such Maintenance 
sum as the state board of education may in each year deem 
necessary for their support, not exceeding eighty thousand 
dollars for the four normal schools now established, shall be 
annually paid therefor from the treasury of the state, on the 
order of said board ; but the board shall not expend any money 
for a normal school hereafter established, until the town, 
city, or city school district, in which said school is situated 
shall have agreed in writing with said board to furnish, and 
shall have furnished, schools, in suitable and sufficient school 
buildings in connection with the training department in said 
school, the terms of said agreement to be satisfactory to said 
board ; and every such town, city, or city school district is 
hereby empowered to make and execute such agreements. 

§ 13 The number of pupils in each school shall be de~ ossecnai 
termined by the state board of education. Said board may ij^^.^ol^o^J^?^ 
make regulations governing the admission of candidates. To i889chi86.§2 
all pupils admitted to a normal school all its privileges, in- Number and>d- 

, ^ , , ■ r- o ' mission of 

eluding tuition, shall be gratuitous ; no persons, however, shall students 
be entitled to these privileges until they have filed with said 
board a written declaration that their object in securing admis- 
sion to such school is to become qualified to teach in public 
schools, and that they intend to teach in the public schools of 
this state. 

§ 14 The school officers in each town shall annually, ossecssss 
upon request, forward to said board the names of such per- 1849 ises isss 
sons as they can recommend as suitable persons in age, Pn'^ ^^f^l^^f^ 
character, talents, and attainments, to be received as pupils in geiectionof 

said schools. students 

§ 15 The state board of education shall expend the funds ossecssss 
provided for the support of normal schools, appoint and remove ^^/^^ollo 
their teachers, and make rules for their management ; ^ shall file i889 ch 186 §4 
semiannually with the comptroller, to be audited by him, a ^^ enditures 
statement of the receipts and expenses on account of the accounts re- 
normal schools, and shall annually make to the governor a 
report of the condition of those schools and the doings of said 
board in connection therewith. 

§ 16 Said board may establish and maintain model &ssec2S8u 
schools under permanent teachers approved by it, in which the Rev'^is&'^^i 
pupils of the normal schools shall have an opportunity to i8S9chi86S5 
practice modes of instruction and discipline. ^°^^^ ^*^''°°'^ 

1 See § 43 



OSetcniG 
1650 1813 1831 
1849 1872 1882 

1885 1887 

Rev 1888 §2102 

1895 ch 134 

1899 ch 19 



Duties of 
parents and 
guardians 



as sec 2111 
1882 1885 1887 
Rev 1888 §2103 

Penalty 
Excusefs 



Complaint 



Procedure 



Chapter II 
Attendance, Employment, and Instruction of Children 

General Statutes, Chapter 130, page 558 

§ 17 All parents and those who have care of children^ 
shall bring them up in some lawful and honest employment, 
and instruct them or cause them to be instructed in reading, 
writing, spelling, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and 
United "States history.- 

Every parent or other person having control of a child over 
seven and under sixteen years^ of age shall cause such child 
to attend a public day school regularly during the hours and 
terms the public school in the district wherein such child re- 
sides is in session, or while the school is in session where pro- 
vision for the instruction of such child is made according to 
law, unless the parent or person having control of such child 
can show that the child is elsewhere receiving regularly 
thorough instruction during said hours and terms in the studies 
taught in the public schools.* 

Children over fourteen years of age shall not be subject to 
the requirements of this section while lawfully employed at 
labor at home or elsewhere ; but this provision shall not permit 
such children to be irregular in attendance at school while they 
are enrolled as scholars, nor exempt any child who is enrolled 
as a member of a school from any rule concerning irregularity 
of attendance which has been enacted or may be enacted by the 
town school committee, board of school visitors, or board of 
education, having control of the school.® 

§ 18 Each week's failure on the part of a person to com- 
ply with any provision of § 17 shall be a distinct offense, 
punishable with a fine riot exceeding five dollars. 

Said penalty shall not be incurred when it appears that the 
child is destitute of clothing suitable for attending school, and 
the parent or person having control of such child is unable to 
provide such clothing, or its mental or physical condition is 
such as to render its instruction inexpedient or impracticable. 

All offenses concerning the same child shall be charged in 
separate counts in one complaint. When a complaint contains 
more than one count the court may give sentence on one or 
more counts and suspend sentence on the remaining counts. 

If at the end of twelve weeks from the date of the sentence 
it shall appear that the child concerned has attended school 

' Words " those who have the care of children" equivalent to parents or 
guardians 59 Conn 4S9 

Statute to receive a liberal construction 59 Conn 492 

* See §§38 42 43 3 §§122 218 221 ''§20 ^§111 See g 19 



regularly during that time judgment on such remaining counts 
shall not be executed. 

§ iq Whenever the school visitor, town school com- „i903ct29 

. - - ,..,11 Child required 

mittee, or board of education of any town or district shall to attend school 
by vote decide, or whenever the state board of education shall years of age, 
ascertain that a child ove'r fourteen and under sixteen years 
of age has not schooling sufficient to warrant his leaving 
school to be employed, and shall so notify the parent or guar- 
dian of said child in writing, the parent or guardian of said 
child shall cause him to attend school regularly during the days . 
and hours that the public school in the district in which said 
parent or guardian resides is in session, and until the parent 

. . . . . 1905 ch 36 

or guardian of said child has obtained from said board of 
school visitors, town school committee, or board • of educa- 
tion, or from the state board of education, if the notice 
shall have been given by the said state board of education, 
a leaving certificate stating that the education of said child 
is satisfactory to said visitors, town school committee, or 
board of education, or to said state board of education, as 
the case may be ; provided, that said parent or guardian 
shall not be required to cause his child to attend school 
after the child is sixteen years of age. Each week's failure 
on the part of a person to comply with the provisions of 
this section shall be a distinct offense, punishable with a fine, 
not exceeding five dollars, and the provisions of section i8 
shall be applicable to all proceedings under this act. 

§ 20 Attendance of children at a school other than a QSsecnm 
public school shall not be regarded as compliance with the laws KeT/^Vi04 
of the state requiring parents and other persons having control Attendance at 
of children to cause them to attend school, unless the teachers private schools 
or persons having control of such school shall keep a register 
of attendance in the form and manner prescribed by the state 
board of education for the public schools,^ which register shall 
at all times during school hours be open to the inspection of the 
secretary and agents of the state board of education,^ and shall 
tnake such reports and returns concerning the school under 
their charge to the secretary of the state board of education as 
are required from the school visitors concerning the public 
schools,^ except that no report concerning expenses shall be 
required. The secretary of the state board of education shall 
furnish to the teachers or persons having charge of any school, 
on their request, such registers and blanks for returns as may be 
necessary for compliance with the provisions of this section. 

1 § 2 * §§ 6 7 3 g 2 



10 



G S sec 2119 
1842 1869 1871 

1882 1885 

Rev 1888 §2105 

1899 ch 41 

Employment of 
children under 
fourteen 



GSsecSiao 
1882 1885 
Rev 1888 §2107 
1901 ch 110 



Penalty 



OSsecU70U 

1886 
Rev 1888 §1753 
1895 ch 118 §1 
Employment of 
children under 
fourteen 
O 3 sec U705 

1886 
Rev 1888 §1754 

1895 ch 118 

1901 ch 110 §§1 

2 3 

Certificate of 
age of child 



1905 ch 115 



§ 21 Every person who shall employ a child under four- 
teen years of age during the hours while the school which such 
child should attend is in session, and every person who shall 
authorize or permit on premises under his control any such 
child to be so employed, shall be fined not more than twenty 
dollars for every week in which such child is so employed. 

§ 22 Every parent or other person, having control of a 
child, who shall make any false statement concerning the age 
of such child with intent to deceive the town clerk or registrar 
of births, marriages, and deaths of any town, or the teacher of 
any school, or shall instruct a child to make any such false state- 
ment, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars.^ 

§ 23 No child under fourteen years of age shall be em- 
ployed in any mechanical, mercantile, or manufacturing es- 
tablishir.ent. 

§ 24 Every person or corporation employing a child 
under sixteen years of age in any mechanical, mercantile, or 
manufacturing establishment shall obtain a certificate showing 
that the cliild is over fourteen years of age. Such certificate 
shall be signed by the registrar of births, marriages, and deaths 
or by the town clerk of the town where there is a public record 
of the birth of the child, or by a teacher of the school which the 
child last attended, or by the person having custody of the regis- 
ter of said school.- 

If a child was not born in the United States, the state 
board of education may investigate and, if it appears that said 
child is over fourteen 5^ears of age, may grant a certificate 
accordingly, and this certificate ma}^ be accepted as evidence 
of age. The parent or guardian of any child shall state, under 
oath, to the secretary or agent of the state board of education, 
the date of birth of the child, and shall present any family 
record, passport, or other documentary evidence which said 
board may require, showing the age of the child. The said 
secretary or agents may administer the oath required by this 
section. 

Every employer or other person having control of any es- 
tablishment or premises where children under sixteen years of 
age are employed, who shall neglect to keep on file the cer- 
tificates described in this section or to show the same, with a list 
of the names of such children so employed, to the secretary or 
an agent of the state board of education, or to an agent of the 
board of school visitors, town school committee, or board of 
education, as the case may be, of the town in which the estab- 
lishment or premises are located, when demanded during the 
usual business hours, shall be fined not more than one hun- 
dred dollars. 



§24 



22 25 



II 

The fee for recording the birth of a child shall be fifteen 
cents, to be paid by the parent or guardian of the child. For 
a certificate of the record the fee shall be fifteen cents. 

§ 25 If a child who has not attended school in this state 1903 chrs 
was born in the United States, but no record of the date of 
birth can be obtained, or if the record of the date of birth of a 
child on a school register in one year is inconsistent with the 
record in another year, or if a child has not attended school in 
this state at least one term of twelve weeks, the state board of 
education may investigate, and, if it appears that the child is 
over fourteen years of age, may grant a certificate accordingly, ^^^'i^'^^*^*' °^ 
and this certificate may be accepted as evidence of age in lieu 
of the certificate prescribed in section 24. When the parent or 
guardian applies for a certificate under the provisions of this 
section, he shall state under oath to the secretary or to an agent 
of the state board of education the date and place of birth, and 
shall exhibit upon request any family records or other papers 
showing the age of the child. 

§ 26 Ever}^ person acting for himself, or as agent of a &ssecU706 
mechanical, mercantile, or manufacturing establishment, v/ho Revises 
shall employ, authorize, or permit to be employed in such es- i895^ch\i8% 
tablishment any child, in violation of any provision of § 23 or ^^^gil's^'^" 
§ 24, shall be fined not more than sixty dollars, and every week see §2120 
of such illegal employment shall be a distinct ofifense; pro- ^^^^^^^y 
z'ided, that no person shall be punished under this section for 
the employment of any child, when at the time of such employ- 
ment the employer shall obtain, and thereafter during such 
employment keep on file, the certificate provided for in § 24. 

§ 27 It shall be the duty of the state board of education, ^'^gggjlg! 
and the school visitors, boards of education, and town school Rev isss §1755 

SI 00 J - J r ^1 .. 1893 eh 227 §6 

committees to enforce §§ 23, 24, and 25, and for that pur- 
pose the state board of education may appoint agents, under its ii'Jee^^preceding 
supervision and control, for terms of not more than one year, sections 
who shall be paid not to exceed five dollars a day for time 
actually employed and necessary expenses, and whose accounts 
shall be approved by said board and audited by the comptroller. 
The agents so appointed may be directed by said board to en- 
force the provisions of the law requiring the attendance^ of 
children at school and to perform any duties necessary or 
proper for the due execution of the duties and powers of the 
board. 

§ 28 The school visitors or the town school committee o a seam 
in every town shall, once or more in every year, examine into Eevi888§2i08 
the situation of the children employed in all manufacturing es- 
tablishments, and ascertain whether all the provisions of this 

^ §§ 17-22 



12 



Eeportof viola- 
tions of law 



Q S sec 2122 

1865 
Rev 1888 §2110 

By-laws con- 
cerning truants 



G S sec 2123 

1865 
Rev 1888 §2111 

Truant officers 



G S sec 212k 
1869 1877 
Rev 1888 §2112 
1899 ch 19 



Arrest of 
truants 



<? 8 sec 2125 
1869 1873 1877 
Eev 1888 §2113 
1903 ch 92 §3 
1901 ch 56 



Truants com- 
mitted to school 
for boys 



G S sec 2126 

1877 
Rev 1888 §3114 

Fees for arrest- 
ing truants 



chapter are duly observed, and report all violations thereof to 
the proper prosecuting authority. 

§ 2g Each city and town may make regulations concern- 
ing habitual truants from school and children between the ages 
of seven and sixteen years^ wandering about its streets or pub- 
lic places, having no lawful occupation, nor attending school, 
and growing up in ignorance; and may make such by-laws, 
respecting such children, as shall conduce to their welfare and 
to public order, imposing penalties, not exceeding twenty dol- 
lars for any one breach thereof. 

§ 30 Every town, and the mayor and aldermen of every 
city, having such by-laws, shall annually appoint three or more 
persons, who alone shall be authorized to prosecute for viola- 
tions thereof. All warrants issued upon such prosecutions 
shall be returnable before any justice of the peace, or judge of 
the city or police court of the town or city. 

§ 31 The police in any city, and bailififs, constables, 
sheriffs, and deputy sheriffs in their respective precincts, stiall 
arrest all boys between seven and sixteen years of age, who 
habitually wander or loiter about the streets or public places, or 
anywhere beyond the proper control of their parents or guar- 
dians, during the usual school hours of the school term ; and 
may stop any boy under sixteen years of age, during such 
hours, and ascertain whether he is a truant from school ; and 
if he be, shall send him to such school. 

§ 32 Every boy arrested three times or more under the 
provisions of § 31 shall be taken before the judge of the crimi- 
nal or police court, or a justice of the peace in the city, borough, 
or town where such arrest is made; and if it shall appear that 
such boy has no lawful occupation, or is not attending school, 
or is growing up in habits of idleness or immorality, or is an 
habitual truant, he may be committed to any institution of in- 
struction or correction, or house of reformation in said city, 
borough, or town, for not more than three years, or, if such boy 
be not less than ten years of age, with the approval of the 
selectmen, to the Connecticut school for boys. 

§ 33 Officers other than policemen of cities shall receive 
for making the arrests required by §§ 31 and 32 such fees, not 
exceeding the fees allowed by law for making other arrests, as 
may be allowed by the selectmen of the town in which such 
arrests are made ; but unless a warrant was issued by a judge of 
the criminal or police court, or by a justice of the peace, the 
officer shall, before receiving his fees, present to the selectmen 
of the town a written statement showing the name of each boy 
arrested, the day on which the arrest was made, and if the boy 

1 g§ 297 304 



13 

was returned to school the name or number of the school to 
which he was so returned. 

§ 34 In all cases arising under the provisions of §§ 31, 32, QSseczm 
or 33, a proper warrant shall be issued by the judge of the i869 
criminal court of the city, or by a justice of the peace in the 
borough or town, where such arrest is made ; and the father, if warrant and 
living, or if not, the mother or guardian of such boy, shall be ^^^^''"s 
notified, if such parent or guardian can be found, of the day 
and time of hearing. The fees of the judge or justice shall 
be two dollars for such hearing; and all expenses shall be paid 
by the city, borough, or town in and for which he exercised 
such jurisdiction. 

§ 35 After the hearing in any such case such judge or a 8 sec 2ns 
justice of the peace may, at his discretion, indefinitely suspend Revisll^sne 

judgment. judgment may 

?TTi 1-1 1-r^® suspended 

§ 36 Upon the request of the parent or guardian of any ossecsm 
girl between seven and sixteen years of age, a warrant may be ^^Igi soil'- 
issued for her arrest in the manner and on the conditions pro- i899 ch 19 
vided in the preceding sections with respect to boys ; and there- 
upon the samie proceedings may be had as are above provided, committeTto 
except that said girl may be committed to the Connecticut in- school"*^ 
dustrial school for girls.^ 

§ 37 The selectmen of any town may .appoint committees ossecisuo. 
of school districts and janitors of school buildings, and other „ ,^|^2 

J . . o ' Rev 1888 §70 

persons on nomination by the school visitors of the town or 
board of education of an incorporated school district, special school commit- 
constables. Said constables shall have power in the town in as special con- 
which they reside, and in adjoining towns when offenders 
have escaped thither, to arrest for truancy and other causes 
named in § 31, and for disturbance of schools and school meet- 
ings, and damage to school property, and to serve criminal 
process in all such cases. 



Chapter III 
Duties of Towns 

General Statutes Chapter 131 page 561 

§ 38 Public schools shall be maintained for at least thirty- o s sec nso 
six weeks in each year in every town and school district. Revif8™§2ii8 

No town shall receive any money from the state treasury J^^^^^^^fg 
for any district unless the school therein has been kept during i897 eh loi 

... 1899 ch 54 SI 

the time herein required; but no school need be maintained in ^^^jj,gj.oj 
any district in which the average attendance^ at the school in weeks of school 

' § 304 

* Method of obtaining average attendance is prescribed in register 



14 



studies 



Age of 
a<£nission 



said district during the preceding year, ending the fourteenth 
day of July/ was less than eight.^ 

In said schools shall be taught, by teachers found duly 
qualified,^ reading, spelling, writing, English grammar, geog- 
raphy, arithmetic, and United States history, and such other 
studies, including elementary science and training in manual 
arts, as may be prescribed by the board of school visitors, or 
town school committee. , 

The public schools of every town and district shall be open 
to children over five years of age without discrimination on ac- 
count of race or color,* but school visitors, town school com- 
mittees, and boards of education, may, by vote at a meeting 
duly called, admit to any school children over four years of 
ag-e. 



Q S sec n$l 

1886 
Rev 1888 §2120 
1899 ch 54 §2 
Kindergartens 



§ 39 Any town or school district may establish and main- 
tain kindergartens which shall be open to children over three 
years of age. 



GSsecSSUS 
Who may 
employ teacher 



§ 40 Any town, unless otherwise provided, may direct the 
school visitors to employ the teachers for all public schools of 
the town for such terms of the schools as it may specify.^ 



1903 ch 96 
Duties of 
citizenship 



§ 41 The duties of citizenship shall be taught in the public 
schools. The state board of education shall prepare and dis- 
tribute to every school an outline of questions and suggestions 
relating to said subject, and said outline may be used in said 
schools. 



& S sec S13U 

1884 
Rev 1888 §2123 



Inetrnctiou in 
music 



§ 42 Any town, at its annual meeting, may direct its 
school visitors or town school committee to employ one or more 
teachers to give instruction in the rudiments and principles of 
vocal and instrumental music in its several schools, and the 
salary of such teachers shall be paid by such town. 



G SsecSies 

1886 

Rev 1888 

§§2100 2141 

1893 ch 157 

1901 ch 81 



Effects of 
alcohol and 
narcotics to be 
taught 



§ 43 Hygiene, including the effects of alcohol and nar- 
cotics on health and character, shall be taught as a regular 
branch of study to pupils above the thircl grade in public 
schools ; and, in grades above the fifth, text-books treating of 
the effects of alcohol and narcotics on the human system shall 
be used. This section shall apply to classes in ungraded schools 
corresponding to the grades designated herein, but shall not 

1 § 232 ^ §§ 48 239 2 ^§ 60 67 II 8 195 

■* A child is entitled to school privileges in a district if he is residing there 
59 Conn 491 See §§ 17 218 * § i37 



15 

include high schools. Normal and teachers' training schools 
shall give instruction on the subjects prescribed in this section 
and concerning the best method of teaching the same.^ 

§ 44 Whenever the comptroller shall be satisfied that any QSiecsies 
town or district has failed to comply with the requirements of ^^igUch^isv 
§ 43, he may withhold from such town or district the whole or (|om°\roiier ^^ 
any part of the school dividend.^ may withhold 

•^ ^ school money 

§ 45 Any town at its annual meeting may direct the „^ 
school visitors, town school committee, or board of education I8671886 
to purchase, at the expense of said town, the text-books and "^Tssg^ch^i? 
other school supplies used in the public schools of said town, Text-books 
and said text-books and supplies shall be loaned to the pupils ^^ puppies 
of said public schools free of charge, subject to such rules and 
regulations as the school visitors, town school committee, or 
board of education may prescribe. 

§ 46 Any town at its annual meeting may direct the 
school visitors, town school committee, or board of educa- Towns may vote 

- - - . ; , , , to furnish free 

tion to purchase, at the expense 01 said town, the text-books text-books and 
and other school supplies used in the public schools of said 
town, and said text-books and supplies shall be loaned to 
the pupils of said public schools free of charge, subject to 
such rules and regulations as the school visitors, town 
school coiumittee, or board of education may prescribe. 
Whenever twenty legal voters shall so petition, the vote to de- 
termine whether the said school officers shall purchase text- 
books and supplies as hereinbefore provided shall be by ballot, 
and every ballot cast shall be inclosed in the official envelope 
provided for ballots for town officers. Those electors who 
are in favor of directing said school officers to so purchase 
tQxt-books and supplies shall deposit a ballot with the words 
" Free text-books Yes" written or printed thereon, and those 
who are opposed shall deposit a ballot with the words " Free 
text-books No " written or printed thereon. The ballots cast 
shall be examined, sorted, and recorded, and the result de- 
clared in the manner provided by law, and if the majority of 
the ballots so given in bear the words " Free text-books Yes," 
said school officers shall purchase such text-books and supplies 
as hereinbefore provided. 



supplies, when 



§ 47 Whenever an acting school visitor shall find that any 
pupils in the public schools are not supplied with the prescribed 
text-books, and in the opinion of said acting school visitor the 



i6 



Text-books to 
be provided by 
town 



1903 ch 210 §1 



School 

accommodation 
must be 
furnished 



Hearing 



1903 ch 310 §2 
Appeal 



parents of the pupils are unable to buy the required books^ the 
said acting visitor shall purchase the said books, and shall 
certify the cost of the same to the selectmen, or the town school 
committee, as the case may be, who shall draw an order on the 
town treasurer for the payment of the bill. 

§ 48 Every town in which a school has been discon- 
tinued^ shall furnish, whenever necessary, by transportation or 
otherwise, school accommodations so that every child over 
seven and under sixteen years of age can attend school as re- 
quired in section 17. If any town refuses or neglects to fur- 
nish such accommodations, the parent or guardian of any child 
who is deprived of schooling, or any agent or officer whose duty 
it is to compel the observance of the laws concerning attendance 
at school, may, in writing, request a hearing by the town school 
committee, board of school visitors, or board of education, as 
the case may be, and said officers shall give such person a hear- 
ing within ten days after receipt of his written request therefor, 
and shall make a finding within ten days after said hearing. 

§ 49 Any parent, guardian, or officer aggrieved by said 
finding may take an appeal therefrom to the board of selectmen, 
which shall give a public hearing in the town in which the 
cause of complaint arises. If it appears that any child is 
illegally or unreasonably deprived of schooling, said board shall 

i§§ III 186 ^§§38 239 

The general assembly of 1905 passed an act concerning free text-books and 
school supplies as follov/s : — 

Every town which has not heretofore directed its school visitors, town 
school committee, or board of education to purchase, at the expense of the 
town, the text-books and other school supplies used in the public schools of 
said town shall, at its annual town meeting in 1905, vote by ballot to determine 
whether the said school officers shall purchase text-books and supplies under the 
provisions of section 2135 of the general statutes. At the said annual town 
meeting in 1905, the selectmen shall provide a ballot box plainly marked " free 
text-books," and in towns divided into wards or voting districts, for annual 
town meetings, a ballot box marked as aforesaid shall be provided at each of 
such wards or voting districts. Those electors who are in favor of directing 
the said school officers to purchase text-books and supplies under the provisions 
of said section shall deposit in said ballot box a ballot with the words ' ' free 
text-books yes" written or printed thereon, and those who are opposed shall 
deposit a ballot with the words "free text-books no " written or printed thereon. 
The ballots cast shall be examined, sorted, and counted, and the result declared, 
in the manner provided by law, and if a majority of the ballots so given in, have 
the words " free text books yes," said school officers shall purchase such text- 
books and supplies under the provisions of said section. 

Under the provisions of this act 72 towns voted yes and 45 no. 



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require the proper school officer to make arrangements to enable 
the parent or guardian to comply with the provisions of sec- 
tion 17. 

§ 50 Except as provided in § 195' the selectmen shall have GSseesm 
the management of any property pertaining to schools and be- Rev^piae 
longing to the town : shall lodge with the treasurer all bonds, 
leases, notes, and other securities, which have not been, or shall ^°*'t^ <>'" 
not be, intrusted to others by the grantor, the general assembly, 
or the town ; shall pay to the treasurer all money which they 
may collect and receive for the use of schools. They shall 
cause the boundary lines of school districts to be entered on the 
records of the town, designate the time, place, and object of 
holding the first meeting in a new district, and shall perform 
all other lawful acts required of them by the town, or necessary 
to carry into full effect the powers of towns with regard to 
schools/ 

§ 51 The governor shall annually, in the spring, designate GSsecUhss 
by official proclamation an arbor and bird day, to be observed Rev I888 §1756 
in the schools, and in such other way as shall be indicated in ^^^rand 

such proclamation. bird day 

§ 52 The selectmen shall provide every schoolhouse in GSsecsis9 
which a school is maintained within their respective towns with ^ ^ ^^^ 

. . ■ Fl&ss for 

a United States flag of silk or bunting, not less than four feet in schooihonses 
length, and a suitable flagstaff, or other arrangement whereby 
such flag may be displayed on the schoolhouse grounds every 
school day when the weather will permit, and on the inside of 
the schoolhouse on other school days, and renew such flag 
and apparatus when necessary. 

§ 53 The governor shall annually in the spring designate (fSeec^iiM ^ 
by official proclamation the fourteenth day of June as flag day 1905 ch 1413 
and suitable exercises having reference to the adoption of the fxeSfse^ 
national flag shall be had in the public schools on that day or 
in case that day shall not be a school day on the school day 
preceding or on such other days as the school visitors, board 
of education or town school committee shall prescribe. 

§ 54 If any board of selectmen shall wilfully refuse or QSsecam 
neglect to provide the flag or apparatus required by § 52, oi' to 
renew such flag or apparatus, when necessary, for a period of selectmen 
thirty days after the reception by them of written notice signed provide™!/ 
by a school visitor, a member of the town school committee or 
board of education, or a resident of the school district in which 
the said school is located, that said schoolhouse is not provided 
with such flag or apparatus, or that such flag or apparatus 
should be renewed, each of such board of selectmen who has 
so received notice shall be fined not more than ten dollars. 



G 8sec tlSl 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2125 

School fund 
treasurer 



a a cec 1795 

1831 1833 1865 

1885 

Rev 1888 §33 

1901 ch 10 

Warnings of 
tovyrn city 
borough and 
other meetings 



§ 55 Every town holding any permanent funds received 
from any school society or district shall annually elect, by 
ballot, a school fund treasurer, who shall have charge of such 
funds, keep a separate account of the same, and give bonds, 
with surety to the satisfaction of the selectmen, for the faithful 
discharge of the duties of his office.^ 

§ 56 The warning of every town meeting, annual or 
special, and of every meeting of a city, borough, school society, 
school district, or other public community, or of an ecclesiastical 
society, or of proprietors of common fields, shall specify the 
objects for which such meeting is to be held. A printed or 
written warning of any town meeting, signed by the selectmen, 
or a majority of them, and set upon the signposts. in the town, 
or printed in a newspaper published in said town, at least five 
days previous to holding the meeting, including the day that 
notice is given, but not including the day of holding said meet- 
ing, shall be sufficient notice thereof, except in those towns 
where such warning is directed by special charter provision 
to be otherwise given ; but any town may, at an annual meeting, 
designate any other place or places, in addition to the sign- 
posts, at which such warnings shall be set up, and the select- 
men shall, on or before the day of such meeting, cause a copy 
of every such warning to be left with the town clerk, who shall 
record the same.^ 

'§97 

- Both warning and notice are requisite for legal meeting. 4 Day 62; 5 
Conn 391; 37 Conn 392; 44 Conn 157; 52 Conn 483; 58 Conn 488; 60 Conn 165. 

Warning is to be affirmatively proved. 8 Conn 247. Town clerk's record 
that meeting was legally warned is prima facie evidence thereof. 25 Conn 555. 

The hour of meeting presumed to be a proper hour. 13 Conn 227. 

The notice should fairly state the purpose of meeting. 13 Conn 227; 15 
Conn 327; 36 Conn 83; 53 Conn 577; 58 Conn 488. 

The town may act within the limits of the warning. 55 Conn 245. _ 

The statute prescribed method of notice, while by its vote the society pre- 
scribed more general notice. 

I/e/d that the society vote was merely directory. 15 Conn 327.^ 

A validating act of the general assembly cures all defects incident to the 
act validated. 52 Conn 45. 

Town has no inherent legal powers. 32 Conn 47. 

The warning needs no address, but addressed "to the inhabitants" is valid. 
32 Conn 47. 

Clerk's certificate imports verity only as to matters of lawful consideration. 
44 Conn 158; 51 Conn 22. 

Five days before the meeting, means five days before the day of meeting. 
51 Conn 22. 

A meeting illegally warned voted a guarantee; a subsequent legal meeting 
voted "to let conditions of former vote remain as they now stand." 

I/e/d not to be a ratification. 51 Conn 22. 

The town is not stopped by erroneous record of town clerk, as against one 
acting under it. 51 Conn 22. 

Meeting voted to adjourn "to Wednesday evening"; AelJ to mean the 
next Wednesday. 52 Conn 45. 

Town may by acquiescence ratify unauthorized act of selectmen. 59 Conn 

447- 



Chapter 138, Public Acts of 1907 

An Act Amending an Act Concerning the Warnings of Town, City, 
Borough, and other Meetings 

This Act amends Section 56 on the opposite page 

Section i. Section 1795 of the general statutes is hereby 
amended to read as follows : The warning of every town 
meeting, annual or special, and of every meeting of a city, 
borough, school society, school district, or other public com- 
munity, or of an ecclesiastical society, or of proprietors of 
common fields, shall specify the objects for which such meet- '' 
ing is to be held. Notice of a town meeting shall be given by 
setting upon the signposts in the town and at such other place 
or places as may be designated as hereinafter provided, a 
printed or written warning signed by the selectmen, or a 
majority of themi, and by publishing a like warning in a news- 
paper published in said town or having a circulation therein, 
such posting and such publication to be at least five days 
previous to holding the nieeting, including the day that notice 
is given, but not including the day of holding said meeting; 
but any town may, at an annual meeting, designate any other 
place or places, in addition to the signposts, at which such 
warnings shall be set up, and the selectmen shall, on or before 
the day of such meeting, cause a copy of every such warning 
to be left with the town clerk, who shall record the same. 
Notice of a meeting of a city, borough, or school society shall 
be given by setting upon the signposts within the limits of 
such city, borough, or society, or at such place or places as 
may be designated by special charter provision, a written or 
printed warning signed by the mayor or clerk in the case of a 
city, the warden or clerk in the case of a borough, and the 
committee, or a majority thereof, in the case of a school so- 
ciety, and by publishing a like warning in a newspaper pub- 
lished within the limits of such city, borough, or school so- 
ciety, or having a circulation therein, at least five days previous 
to holding the meeting, including the day that notice is given 
but not including the day of holding said meeting; provided, 
that the committee of a school society having an enumeration of 
less than one hundred may, on giving notice by posting, in its 
discretion, omit the publication of the warning in a newspaper 
as above prescribed. 



towns in which they are s'ltuated, shall be and remain school Boards of edu- 
districts of said towns, with all the powers and duties of school ^fStfer*""^ 
districts, as specified in this title ; ^ 

* Effect of statute illustrated. 55 Conn 144 

' Property held in trust by bequest not affected by the statute. 39 Conn 63. 
^ Chapter xi page 41 



20 

Except that each shall annually choose on the third Monday 
of September, instead of a district committee, a board of educa- 
tion consisting of six or nine persons, who shall be chosen by 
ballot, one-third to be chosen each year, to serve for three years 
and until others are elected in their places. That number of 
persons sufficient to fill the board who have the highest number 
of votes shall be elected. 

Said board shall have all the powers and be subject to all 
the duties of district committees,^ and shall also have the gen- 
eral superintendence of the public schools in the district and the 
management of its property ; 

Shall lodge all bonds, leases, notes, and other securities, with 
the treasurer of said district, unless the same have been in- 
trusted to others by the grantors, or the general assembly ; 

Pay into the treasury of the district all moneys which the\ 
may receive for the support of schools ; 

Determine the number and qualifications of the scholars to 
be admitted into each school ; 

Supply the requisite number of qualified teachers f 

Ascertain annually, during the first two weeks of Septem- 
ber, the expense of maintaining the schools under their superin- 
tendence during the year ending the fourteenth day of the pre- 
vious July,^ and report the same, with the amount of moneys 
received towards the payment thereof, to the district, at a meet- 
ing to be held on the third Monday of September in each year ; 
shall, at the same time, make a full report of their doings-, and 
the condition of such schools, and all important matters con- 
cerning the same ; 

And shall perform all lawful acts required of them by the 
district, or necessary to carry into effect the powers and duties 
herein defined. 

All existing school societies, in which school districts have 
been or may be abolished, may avail themselves of the. privi- 
leges specified in this section.* 

Special laws relating to particular societies or districts shall 
not be affected by this section.^ 
os»octi6& § 6i The property of the school societies specified in 

Rev 1888 §2i;^i § 6o shall not be affected by the provisions of this title. 

' Chapter xiii page 55 « gg 33 ng a 232 

* Districts which availed themselves of the provisions of this chapter were 
city district of New Haven (see page 103), Westville district of New Haven, 
Middletown city district, Norwich central district, Norwich town street district, 
Norwich Falls district (see page 107), "Waterbury city district (see page 112), 
for Orange union district (see page iii, New Haven, Waterbury, and Nor- 
wich Falls districts are now managed under special charters 

* See chapter xxv page 94 



21 

§62 The board of education, appointed by any school Property uot 
aflfecled bv this 

district organized under the provisions of § 60, shall, within title 
said district, possess all the powers and be subject to all the asmcsm 
duties of school visitors in the several towns ;^ Revi^§2i32 

Shall make their annual report to the secretary of the state Powers of board 
board of education, and send their returns and certificates di- " "^^af"" 
rectly to the comptroller ; 

May appoint an acting school visitor in said district, who 
shall possess, within said district, all the powers and be subject 
to all the duties of similar officers appointed by school visitors.^ 
The authority of the board of school visitors of the town in 
which said district is situated shall extend only to the remain- 
ing portion of said town ; and their returns and certificates 
shall include only the children of such remaining portion. 

§ 63 The comptroller, on application of the board of edu- <-r s sec tui 
cation of such district, shall draw an order on the treasurer in p^ev i^§3i83 
favor of such district for the proportionate amount to which 
such district may be entitled of all moneys appropriated by law o/MblteSSney 
for the benefit, support, and encouragement of public sd^iools, 
as is provided in respect to towns f and the town in which said 
district is situated shall be entitled to receive only its propor- 
tionate amount of such public money for the children in the 
remaining portion of said town. 

§ 64 In every school district in which a board of educa- Qs^ecnm 
tion is required by law to be elected by ballot, the ballot boxes Revises §2134 
shall be open for the reception of votes, in districts having less 
than four hundred voters, three hours and not longer ; in dis- fjertto^ards 
tricts having over four hundred and less than one thousand of education 
voters, five hours and not longer ; and no box for the reception 
of ballots shall remain open later than half past eight in the 
afternoon of the day of such election. 

Chapter V 
High Schools 

General Statutes, Chapter 138, page 582 

§ 65 Any town ma)'- establish and maintain a high school Q^Mcs^Bse 
within its limits, and for such purposes purchase, receive, hold, jjgy 1^^2215 
and convey any property, build and repair schoolhouses, lay see §§21.30 2145 
taxes, and make contracts and adopt regulations for the man- ifg^^^l'fjy^towns 
agement of such school.* 

' Chapter viii page 26 

* § 101 ^ § 207 

* For organization of Norwalk High School see page 107 



22 



O S sec 2SS7 

1861 
Rev 1888 §2216 
1889 ch 181 
1893 ch8 128 

152 
Committee how 
choneii 



6 S secHesS 

1856 1861 

Rev 1888 §2217 

1889 ch 181 

1893 chs 128 

153 

Duties of town 
school com- 
mittee and 
school visitors 



G S sec 3^39 
1897 ch 249 §1 



Tuition, when 
paid by tovni 



G S sec 3^U0 
1897 ch 249 §S 
1899 ch 71 
1901 ch 36 



Reimbm'eement 
in part by state 



G S sec 'Jiihl 
1897 ch 349 §3 



§ 66 Any town which is not a consolidated district may 
choose by ballot at its annual town meeting a committee^ of 
three, four, or five residents of the town, who shall have. all such 
powers and be subject to such duties in relation to such schools 
as are by law imposed upon district committees in relation to 
district schools.^ If the number to be chosen is three or four, 
no person shall vote for more than two; if five, for not more 
than three. The number of persons sufficient to fill the com- 
mittee who have the highest number of votes shall be elected. 
In case of a tie that person whose name stands first or highest 
on the greatest number of ballots shall be elected, 

§ 67 When any town shall maintain any such high school, 
the board of school visitors or town school committee, as the 
case may be, shall prescribe rules for the admission of scholars, 
and for their studies, books, and classification ; 

Examine all candidates for teachers in such school and give 
to those of satisfactory moral character, literary attainments, 
and ability to teach, a certificate stating what branches they are 
foun^ capable of teaching ; 

Visit such school at least twice during each term ; 

May revoke the certificate of any teacher, at any time, for the 
causes provided in § 210. 

In towns having no town school committee the school 
visitors may appoint a high school committee whenever the 
town fails to elect one ; and such committee, so appointed, shall 
have the same powers and duties as if appointed by the town.' 

§ 68 Any town in which a high school is not maintained 
shall pay the whole or any part of the tuition fee of any child 
who resides with his parents or guardian in said town, and 
who, with the written consent of the school visitors, or town 
school committee, attends a high school in another town, pro- 
vided that the high school shall be approved by the state board 
of education. Such tuition fees shall be paid annually by the 
town treasurer upon the order of the chairman of the board of 
school visitors or town school committee. 

§ 69 Every town shall annually in July receive from the 
treasurer of the state an amount equal to two-thirds of the ag- 
gregate of the sums which have been actually paid by the town 
for tuition fees under the provisions of § 68 ; provided that not 
more than thirty dollars shall be paid by the state for each 
scholar attending from any town, 

§ 70 The number and names of the children so attend- 
ing high schools in towns other than those in which they reside, 

1 § 97 ^ Chapter xiii page 55 May employ and dismiss teachers § 119 
^§§6587 



23 

and the high schools which they have attended, shall, on or Number and 

'i<- If r T 1 • 1 •/'I names of chil- 

beiore the tirst day of July in each year, be certified under oath dren tobere- 

1 1 • • r 1 • 1 • 1 , •, ported 

by an acting school visitor of the town in which the pupils re- 
side to the state board of education.^ The comptroller shall, 
on application of said board, draw an order on the treasurer in 
favor of the town for the amount provided in § 69. 

§71 The state board of education may examine any in- , 1903^*1 ^^^j 

" ' -' -^ Incorporated 

corporated or endowed high school or academy in this state, ^ "iTchoois^ 
and, if it appears that said school or academy has a satisfactory ^''^^!^?p''*'j^'^ 
high school course of study and sufficient equipment for high of education 
school instruction, said board shall approve said school or 
academy under the provisions of this chapter, and any town in 
which a high school is not maintained shall pay the whole 

^ . . . ^ -^ 1907 ch 90 

or a part of the tuition fee of scholars attending such school 
or academy, and such town shall be reimbursed therefor by 
the state under the terms and conditions of this chapter. 

§ 72 Any town in which a high school is not maintained 1903 ch I82 §1 
shall pay the reasonable and necessary cost of railway or other 
transportation of any child who resides with his parents or Faton'miS^^r 
guardian in said town and who, with the written tonsent of the ^*'*^ ^^ *"'^" 
school visitors or town school committee, attends a high school 
in another town ; provided, that such high school be approved 
by the state board of education. Such necessary and reason- 
able cost of railway or other transportation shall be paid 
annually by the town treasurer upon the order of the chairman 
of the board of school yisitors or town school committee. 

§ 73 Every town shall, annually, in July, receive from the 1903 c^ jgg ^^ 
treasurer of the state an amount equal to one-half of the ag- 
gregate of the sums which have actually been paid by the town ^"^g/fn'^g,.;. 
for transportation under the provisions of § 72 ; provided, that 
not more than twenty dollars shall be paid by the state for 
each scholar conveyed. 

§ 74 The number and names of the children so con- 

, , . , , 1 . 1 , , . , • , , 1»03 ch 183 §3 

veyed to high schools in towns other than those m which they 

reside, the names of the high schools which they have at- Report to state 

tended, and the amount paid by the town for the conveyance of ^P^^^ °^ educa- 

each child shall, on or befpre the first day of July in each year, 

be certified to the state board of education by an acting school 

visitor, under oath, of the town in which the children reside. 

On application of said board the comptroller shall draw an ^^.^^^ 

order on the treasurer of the state in favor of the town for the 

amount provided in § 73. 

' Blanks are furnished by state board of education ; see note § 2 



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i907ch:j6 § 75 Any town in which a high school is maintained 

Town may pro- o / »/ y o 

vide for trans- may, at any annual or special meetmsr, authorize and instruct 

portationofhiKh ,, , . , , , . , , r i t • • 

school pupils the high school committee, board of school visitors, or town 
school committee, as the case may be, to provide for the trans- 
portation, to and from such school, of any pupil attending 
such school and residing within the limits of such town, or pay 
the whole or a part of the reasonable and necessary cost 
thereof. 

Chapter VI 

Evening Schools 

GSxeciius § 76 Every town and school district having ten thousand 

RcT i^lsiig o'" more inhabitants shall establish and maintain evening schools 

i8^h'2io§i ^^^ ^^^ instruction of persons over fourteen years of age, in 

1903 ch 135 such branches as the proper school authorities of the town or 

Eyening school district shall prescribe ; ^ and on petition of at least twenty per- 

in larger towns ^^^^ ^^^^ fourtcen ycars of age for instruction in any one study 

usually taught in a high school, which persons are, in the 

opinion. of the board of school visitors, town school committee, 

or board of education, competent to pursue high school studies, 

said town or district shall provide for such instruction ; but this 

section shall not apply to a district located in a town which 

maintains such schools, 

GSfecsiue § 77 Boards of school visitors, town school committees, 

Rev 1^^2138 ^^ boards of education, as the case may be, shall provide rooms, 

c^lmf^^^^ examine, employ, and pay, the teachers, and shall have all the 

Management of powcrs and dutics in relation to evening schools that are by 

evening schools j^^y Conferred on them in connection with day schools. 

osseciiu? § 78 No person over fourteen and under sixteen years 

i8^ch 3iTp of age, who cannot read and write, shall be employed in any 

town where public evening schools are established unless he 

Employment of can producc cvcrv school month of twenty days a certificate 

child not attend- • ^ - . , 1 1 • 1 11 

ing evening froui the tcachcr of an evening school showing that he has at- 

Hchool : penalty ,, ,,,., . ••.,1 

tended such school eighteen consecutive evenings in the current 
school month, and is a regular attendant. Every person who 
shall employ a child contrary to the provisions of this section 
shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, and the state board of 
education shall enforce the provisions of this section as provided 
in § 27. 

GSi-eciiks § 79 The board of school visitors, or town school com- 

Rfiv^s mittee, as the case may be, of any tow^n or the board of education 
ils^h^ in any district, wherein such evening schools are established and 

1895 eh 310 §4 maintained, shall annually, on the first Monday in July, certify 
to the comptroller the average number of scholars attending 

1 ^ 78 



25 

such schools within the current school year, and the comptroller i^uwic mouey 

, , . , , . , for evening 

shall thereupon draw his order on the treasurer of the state schooia 
in favor of such board of education, board of school visitors, or 
town school committee, for the use of such schools, in the sum of 
two dollars and a quarter for each scholar included in the 
number so certified, and the treasurer shall pay the same upon 
presentation. No money shall be paid under the provisions of 
this section unless such evening schools have been maintained 
for at least seventy-five sessions in each school year, nor until 
the board of school visitors, board of education, or town school 
committee has reported to the state board of education concern- 
ing the condition and progress of said schools.^ o a sec 211,9 

§80 Any town of less than ten thousand inhabitants may Rev isss §2119 
. 1893 ch 227 

at its annual town meeting, or at a meeting warned for that ]895ch2io§6 

, , . r f 1 • 11 J ii • • Establishment 

purpose, vote to establish evening schools under the provisions of evening 
of §§ 76, 77^ and 79. sS? towns 

§ 81 If any board of school visitors, board of education, (fSsecsiso 
or town school committee, shall deeni it inexpedient or impracti- 
cable to establish a school under the provisions of this chapter 
and shall, on or before the fifteenth of October in any year, -^jj^j, ,^,^y„^ 
apply in writing to the state board of education to be relieved from^e'-Nbilsh^ 
from the provisions of this chapter, and if said board shall, upon '"? 
investigation, find the application to be reasonable, and shall so 
state in writing, the town or district so applying by its board of 
visitors, board of education, or town school committee, shall 
not be subject to the provisions of § 76 until the beginning- of 
the school year following the date of the application. 

Chapter VII 
Free Public Schools for Instruction in the Principles and Practice 

of Trades. 

§ 82 Any town or school district may by vote of such i9Wcii25()§i 
town or district, establish and maintain a free public school for be established ^ 
instruction in the principles and practice of such distinct trades 
as may, with the approval of the state board of education, be 
designated by the board of school visitors, town school commit- 
tee, or board of education of such town, or the district commit- 
tee of such district. Such school shall be open, under such 
rules as may be prescribed by said school officers, to all resi- 
dents of this state ; but no child under sixteen years of age shall 
be admitted to any such school who has not completed' the 
studies of the eighth grade in the public schools of the town in 
which said school is located, or an equivalent course of study 

' Blanks are furnished : see note ij 2 



Terms of admis- 
ion 



26 



1907 ch aSO §2 
Two or more 
towns may 
unite in estab- 
lishing school 



1907 ch 250 §3 
Powers and 
duties of state 
board of educa- 
tion. Reports. 
Payments by 
state 



190? ch 250 §4 
Amount ex- 
pended to be 
certified to 
Comptroller 
Comptroller to 
draw order on 
treasurer 



approved by said school officers. Said school officers shall 
make rules and regulations with reference to the management 
of said school, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. 
The instructors in any such schools shall be experts in the 
trades respectively taught by them. 

§ 83 Two or more towns may, by vote of each of said 
towns, unite for the purpose of forming a trade school district 
and establishing schools under the provisions of this act, and 
the school officers of the towns so united may make all arrange- 
ments, agreements, and regulations necessary to the organiza- 
tion and maintenance of such trade school district. The said 
school officers of each of the towns constituting such district 
shall appoint one of their number to be a member of the trade 
school committee of such district, and the committee so ap- 
pointed shall be a joint committee on" behalf of the several 
towns constituting the district. Each town shall be entitled 
to one vote in said committee. Every district organized under 
the provisions of this section shall continue for at least five 
years, but at the end of said period of five years any town may 
dissolve said district by withdrawal therefrom, by vote of such 
town ; provided, that notice of the intention to so withdraw 
shall be given in writing to each of the other towns comprising 
said district at least three months before the termination of 
said period. 

§ 84 The buildings, equipment, and courses of study, 
and the qualifications of the teachers of every trade school es- 
tablished as hereinbefore provided shall be subject to the ap- 
proval of the state board of education ; and the attendance at 
each such school, together with special reports upon the specific 
work done and the actual results of instruction therein, shall 
be annually certified, under oath, on or before the first Monday 
in July, by the secretary of the board of school visitors, town 
school committee, board of education, district committee, or 
trade school district committee, as the case may be, to said 
state board of education ; and no payments shall be made by the 
state on account of such school, as hereinafter provided, un- 
less said certificate has been filed with and approved by said 
state board of education, and unless application for state aid 
for said school has been made to the board of control by said 
secretary and approved by said board of control. 

§ 85 The board of education or board of school visitors 
of any town, or the committee of any town, school district, or 
trade school district wherein a trade school has been established 
under the provisions of this act shall, annually, on the first 



Monday in July, certify to the comptroller the amount ex- 
pended within said school year for the maintenance and sup- 
port of said school, and the comptroller shall, upon application 
of the state board of education, draw his orders on the treasurer 
in favor of said board of education, board of school visitors, or 
committee for a sum equivalent to one-half the amount so certi- 
fied as having been expended for such support and mainten- 
ance ; provided, that the amount so paid by the state under 
the provisions of this section shall not, in any one year, exceed, 
in the aggregate, fifty thousand dollars ; and provided, further, 
that said sum shall be expended toward the support and main- 
tenance of not more than two such schools, and, if application 
is made in behalf of more than two such schools, the board of 
control shall designate the two such schools for the support 
and maintenance of which such payments shall be made. 

Chapter VIII 
Schools at Temporary Homes 

General Statutes, Chapter i68, page 717 

§ 86 The necessary extra expense incurred by any town osseessoo 
or school district in providing school accommodations and in- Kevis^psss 
struction for the inmates of any temporary homes located oftown^wdl^- 
therein shall be paid by the county. tiictpaidby 

^ -^ -^ county 

§ 87 The board of managers of temporary homes in any osseassoi 
county shall be the judge of what are necessary extra expenses, ^ev i8ii^63664 
under § 86 for school accomodations and instruction for in- 
mates of temporary homes located therein, and no such ex- Managers to ax 
pense shall be allowed or collected of such county unless it pctsm^'^^ '^'^ 
shall have been incurred with the approval of such board, nor 
until the account of the same shall have been audited and ap- 
proved by such board. 

§ 88 Children committed to county homes shall be enu- 1903 ch 200 
merated in the towns or districts in which said county homes cwidrenin 
are located, but children placed by the officers of said homes in h°™enum"^,ed 
families shall be enumerated only in the towns or districts in 
which said families reside. The enumerator of the town or 
district in which the county home is located shall make a sep- 
arate list of the children in the county home and certify said 
list to the school visitors or town school committee as the case 
may be. 

§ 89 The county commissioners may establish schools at ass«ets59 
the county homes if in their opinion it is for the interest of the 1895 ch 322 §2 
children. In case the county commissioners establish and Establishment 
maintain such a school in anv countv the treasurer of the town "^ schools 



28 



G 8 gee zm) 
1895 ch 929 p 



Kmployinent of 
teachers 



1905 cli 31 §1 



State board of 
education may 
provide books 



1905 ch 50 §2 



Exp<.'iji^('. how 

defray wi 



iftos ch 'in %\ 



AppoHionmeiit 
of expense be- 
tween county 
and town 



in which the sch<X)l is located shall pay to the county commis- 
sioners from the amount paid to the town by the comptroller 
that proportionate part which was derived from the enumera- 
tion of the children in the county home. Said commissioners 
shall apply the sum so determined to the payment of teachers, 
and to no other purpose. Said schools shall be open during the 
same days, hours, and terms as the schools in the district or 
town in which the school is located, and the branches taught 
shall be those prescribed by the proper school officers for the 
schools of the town. 

§ go The county commissioners may employ and pay as 
teachers of the schools at the county homes persons found 
qualified as provided in this section, and shall provide books 
for the children and apparatus for teaching. The state board 
of education shall examine the persons employed by the county 
commissioners, and if the candidates are found qualified in re- 
spect of character, education, and teaching ability, may give 
them certificates authorizing them to teach in said schools, and 
said board may revoke such certificates, and the county com- 
missioners shall not employ any person who does not hold such 
certificate. The said board shall appoint an acting visitor or 
visitors,^ who shall inspect and examine said schools at least 
twice in each term, and the county commissioners shall not 
pay any teacher nor maintain said school unless said acting 
visitor shall certify in writing that said school has been for 
each month kept in conformity to law. 

§ 91 The state board of education, or a committee ap- 
pointed by said board, may provide books and apparatus to 
be used at or in any of the public schools in charge of said 
board at county temporary homes, at an expense not exceed- 
ing in any year the amount hereinafter authorized. 

§ 92 The treasurer of the state, upon the order of the 
secretary of the state board of education, shall annually pay 
said state board of education ten dollars for each public school 
within such temporary homes in charge of said board, for 
which such books or apparatus are provided, and if the number 
of scholars in any such school exceeds one hundred, the treas- 
urer shall pay to said board ten dollars for each one hundred 
or fractional part of one hundred scholars in actual attend- 
ance at said school. 

§ 93 In case children are placed by county commissioners 
in homes in towns other than the town in which the county 
home is located, the school visitors, town school committee, or 
board of education of the town in which said children are 



29 

placed shall ascertain the cost of maintaining the school or 
schools in which said children attend for the year ending the 
fourteenth of the preceding July, and, having deducted from 
this amount the sums received by the town for said children 
during said year from the state appropriation, shall apportion 
the remainder of the cost of said school or schools between the 
town and the county in proportion to the number of persons 
between the ages of four and sixteen years as ascertained by 
the enumeration made in the October preceding and shall pre- 
sent a copy of said apportionment to the county commissioners, 
and the county commissioners shall cause the proportionate ex- 
pense of said children located in families to be paid to the town 
in which said children are placed. 

§ 94 Whenever the «town wholly maintains the school i903 ch an §2 
at the county home in any county, the board of school visitors, when county 
town school committee, or board of education of said town expense^ 
shall ascertain the expense of said school at the county home 
as provided in section 93 of this act, and shall certify the ex- 
pense to the county commissioners, who shall pay the whole 
amount so certified. 

§ 95 Whenever, hereafter, any child from a county tem- lamchios §1 
porary home shall be placed by the board of management of men"between 
such county home in a private family, in accordance with the agementand" 
provisions of the general statutes, the responsible person re- fnTcMid^*'^''^ 
ceiving such child shall execute in duplicate a written agree- 
ment with the board of management of the county home con- 
cerned, substantially in the following form : In consideration 
of receiving a child, (name) , age years, into my 

family home from the county temporary home, I 

, of the city, town of , do hereby agree with the 

board of management of said county temporary home, 

thiat so long as said child shall be within the care of my family, 

( 1 ) Said child shall be given sufficient and suitable food, 
clothing and bed, and medical attendance when necessary, and 
shall not be required to perform an amount of labor unsuitable 
for his age or strength. 

(2) Said child shall be given full opportunity to attend 
school during the terms and hours prescribed by the laws of the 
state and the rules of the state board of education. 

(3) Said child shall be given full opportunity to attend 
religious services and receive instruction in the faith of his 
parents, when that is known. 

(4) Notice shall be given to said county temporary 
home of any change of residence of my family or of said child 
within three days after such change. 



1907 ch 108 |2 
Forms to be 



30 

(5) The name of said child shall not be changed except 
by the approval of the board of managers of the county home 
and by application to the superior court, as provided by section 
551 of the general statutes, and notice shall be given to said 
county temporary home whenever such change of name is 
made. 

A. B. 

(Town or city) 
(District or street) 
(Date) 

One copy of such agreement shall be retained by the person 
receiving such child, and the other copy placed and kept on 
file at the county temporary home. 

§ 96 Printed forms for the agreement provided for in 
co^tToiier section 95 shall be furnished by the comptroller, at the expense 
of the state, to the boards of management of the temporary 
homes in the several counties. 

Chapter IX 
Town School Officers^ 

General Statutes, Chapter 134, page 567 

^ l^s im § 97 Agents of town deposit funds,2. . . high school 

Rev 1888 §44 committccs,^ school visitors,^ town school committees,^ and 

1889 ch 181 

1893 chs 152 library directors® shall be voted for by ballot ; but all other 

178 -^ 

?^ -M^ ' Powers and duties of selectmeil in connection with 

1 Enforcement of laws relating to attendance 
a approve commitment of truants to Connecticut School for Boys § 32 
b allow fees of truant officers ^ 33 
c appoint special constables on nomination of school visitors § 37 

2 Boundary lines of districts § 139 

3 District meetings 
a determine in certain cases place of meeting when there is no school- 

house § 151 
b give notice of meeting if no district officers ^152 
c call meeting of new district § 160 

4 Consolidated districts 
a shall appraise property in case o^ joint districts § 198 
b shall give notice of consolidation to adjoining towns ^ 202 
c may call special meetings to close up affairs of abolished districts 

g 203 
d shall lay tax and pay debts after consolidation t^ 204 
e shall collect all dues and demands in favor of abolished districts 

§ 205 , 

/ determine amounts to be paid by districts to town on abandonment 

of union system and lay tax if necessary § 206 
g shall provide ballot boxes for election in certain cases § 190 

5 Estimates 
shall in joint board meeting make preliminary estimates § 231 

6 Appropriations _ . 
a shall in joint board meeting fix amounts for respective districts 

§ 233 



1903 cb 163 



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town officers provided for by law shall be appointed by the Baiiot 
board of selectmen of the several towns respectively.^ ^^^'" "^*" 

Any town at a town meeting duly warned for the purpose, 
may pass votes determining, within the limits by law provided,* 
the number of its officers and prescribing the mode in which 
they shall be voted for at subsequent meetings, but no altera- 
tion of such number shall take effect until after the adjournment 
of the meeting by which it was adopted. 

§ 98 In all elections of town officers a plurality of the QSsecisuo 
votes cast shall be sufficient to' elect, unless it is otherwise ex- Revi888§45 
pressly provided by law.^ fo dect''"*^^"^*^ 

S 99 The town clerks of the several towns shall, within GSsecisw 

^ 1882 



ten days after the election of such officers,* return to the secre- Revi888§54 
tary of state the names of the persons elected to the offices of ^ '^ 

. . . school visitors, or school committee with date of ex 



Returns by town 

piration of term. . . . Every town clerk neglecting to c'erk of election 

make such return shall be fined not more than twenty-five 

dollars. 

§ 100 The terms of office of all elective town officers, when GSsecisoe 
not otherwise prescribed, shall be for one year from the date g g ^1!%^ 
of their election, and the terms of those appointed by the board Kev 1888 §43 
of selectmen shall expire on the day of the annual town meeting official terms of 

, . , 1 • • , , town officers 

next succeedmg their appointment. 

§ 1 01 . . . Any person elected to any other town office QSsecisn 
than that of assessor or town clerk, and accepting the same, or ^^^^' \^|67 ^^^^ 
not declaring his refusal to accept, who shall neglect to per- Revi888§57 
form the duties of the office, shall be fined not more than ten pguaities for re- 
dollars : and any person elected to any town office to which he fusing to accept 

• ■•11 1111- 1 or perform cer- 

is eligible, who shall refuse to accept the same and take the tain duties 

b may as joint board appropriate money for libraries § 217 

c shall as joint board report cost for preceding year to town meeting 

§233 
d shall in joint board meeting pass upon cost of school in excess of 

appropriation § 235 
e shall cause sums due joint districts to be paid § 242 
f shall give order for money in case of district neglecting to open 

school § 168 

7 Taxation 

act with assessors as board of relief §181 

8 Manage property of town in certain cases § 50 

9 Provide Jiags §§ 52 54 

10 Hear appeals when school discontinued § 48 

11 Take bond of school treasurer § 55 

12 Warn school society or district meetings § 57 

13 Fill vacancies in certain cases §§ 100 104 

* §250 8 § 66 * § no ' ^^192 193 ^ § 260 



' In towns having no town school committee the high school committee 
may in certain cases be appointed by school visitors §67 
^ §§ 66 106 192 261 ^ See §§ no 193 261 * See §261 



32 



IOC. ch 6 
City and town 
electious. how 
<-()riteRte<l 



O SmcUIC 

1887 
Rev 1888 §2101 
Women may be 
school officers 

G S tec 1811, 
1725 1874 
Rev 1888 §63 

Vacancies ho\\' 
filled 



oath prescribed by law, shall, unless he has reasonable excuse 
for such refusal, be fined five dollars. . . . Every mod- 
erator of a town meeting who shall neglect to make any return 
required by law shall be fined twenty dollars. 

§ 102 Any person claiming to have been elected . . . 
to any town, city, or borough office, but not so declared, may, 
within sixty days after the time of holding the election, bring 
his petition to any judge of the superior court, alleging the 
facts on which such claim is founded, which shall be served 
upon the party against whom the claim is made at least six 
days before the return day, and returnable not more than 
sixty-six days after the day of such election, and such judge 
shall thereupon hear and determine said petition, and his 
decision thereon shall be conclusive, and if in favor of the pe- 
titioner, his certificate to that effect, under the seal of the court, 
shall entitle the petitioner to hold and exercise the duties and 
powers of such office ; but this section shall not affect the right 
of appeal to the supreme court of errors for the revision of 
questions of law arising thereon, and it shall not prevent such 
judge from reserving such questions of law, by consent of all 
parties, for the advice of said supreme court of errors. And 
said judge may, if necessary, issue his writ of mandamus, re- 
quiring the adverse party and those under him to deliver to 
the petitioner the appurtenances of such office, and shall cause 
his finding and decree to be entered on the records of said 
superior court in the proper county. 

§ 103 No person shall be ineligible to serve as a member 
of a board of education, board of school visitors, town school 
committee, or district committee, or be disqualified from hold- 
ing such office, by reason of sex.^ 

§ 104 If any town office in any town shall be vacant by the 
neglect of the town to elect or appoint, or the refusal of any 
person appointed to act, or by the death or removaP of any 
person appointed, or from any other cause, such town, if such 
office is an elective office, may in legal town meeting fill the 
vacancy ; but until the town shall fill it, such vacancy may be 
filled by the selectmen, and the selectmen shall fill all vacancies 
that may arise in offices to which they have power of appoint- 
ment.^ 



* Town school,officers must be elected at annual town meeting See §§ 105 
193; also town library directors § 244 

* Removal means removal from the town 19 Conn 334 

^ This section does not apply to town high school committees §§ 66 97 106 



33 

§ 105 There shall be elected by every town, at its annual osseeisok 
town meeting, such number of school visitors as such town is Reviiss §41 
required by law to elect, and they shall be elected in the manner school visitors 
and for the term or terms by law prescribed.^ 

§ 106 There shall be in every town, unless otherwise pro- ossecsjss 
vided, a board of school visitors,^ composed of three, six, or iseo 1875 1877 
nine members, as such town may determine, divided into three "^issg^^lig^^ 
equal classes ; the first class shall hold office until the next 
annual town meeting, the second class until the second annual 
town meeting, and the third class until the third annual town 
meeting following, and until others are elected in their places, 
provided, that when said board is composed of only three mem- 
bers, they shall not be divided into classes, and shall be elected 
for three years. Should a vacancy occur, the remaining mem- ciaggification of 
bers of the board may fill it till the next annual town meeting, school visitors 
when vacancies shall be filled in the manner prescribed in 
§ no, and the ballots shall distinctly specify the vacancy to be 
filled. 

§ 107 Whenever any town shall have voted, in the ^"hen^^n^^Ve* 
manner provided by law, to change the number of members of of tow;^ school 

r •' ' ^ _ committee is 

its town school committee or board of school visitors from six changed, how 

to three, no members of such committee or such board shall be 

elected at the first annual town meeting after the adjournment 

of the meeting at which the number was so fixed at three. At 

the second annual town meeting one member of such committee 

or such board shall be elected to serve one year, and at the third 

annual town meeting three members thereof shall be elected. 

Whenever any town shall have voted to change the number of 

said school officers from nine to three, or from twelve to three, 

no members of such committee or such board shall be elected at 

the first and second annual town meetings after the number 

has been so determined, and at the third annual town meeting 

three members thereof shall be elected. 

S 108 Whenever a town shall have so voted to reduce i^orch39§2 

"5 _ When number 

the number of members of its town school committee or board is reduced by 

... resignation, 

of school Visitors to three, and by resignation the number shall, how elected 
before the next annual town meeting after the adjournment 
of the meeting at which the number was fixed at three, be 
reduced to three, the terms of office of the remaining members 
shall terminate at said annual town meeting, and the town 
shall thereupon elect, at said meeting, three members of such 
committee or such board. 

^ When school district is organized under chapter iv the authority of school 
visitors extends to remaining portion of town only § 62 ^ See § 97 



34 



1907 ch 89 §3 
Election and 
term of office 



1872 • 
Kev 1888 §2123 



Election of 
school visitors 



S sec 2,169 
1856 1867 1873 
Rev 1888 §3135 



Officers 

Duties of board 
or committee 



§ log The provisions of section 193 which relate to the 
election and term of office of a town school committee of three 
members shall apply in like manner to the election and term 
of office of the officers provided for by this act. 

§110 School visitors shall be chosen by ballot. If the 
number to be chosen be two, four, six, or eight, no person shall 
vote for more than half of such number. If the number to be 
chosen be three, no person shall vote for more than tv/o ; if five, 
not more than three ; if seven, not more than four ; if nine, not 
more than five. That number of persons sufficient to fill the 
board, who have the highest number of votes, shall be elected. 
In case of a tie that person whose name stands first or highest 
on the greatest number of ballots shall be elected. 

§ III The board of school visitors or town school com- 
mittee shall annually choose from their number a chairman and 
a secretary. 

They shall prescribe rules^ for the management, studies/ 
classification, and discipline of the public schools, 

And, subject to the control of the state board of education, 
the text-books to be used f 

Shall make proper rules for the arrangement, use, and safe- 
keeping, within their respective jurisdictions, of the school 
libraries provided in part by the state, and approve the books 
selected therefor ;* 
They shall approve plans for schoolhouses,^ 

And superintend any high^ or graded school, in the manner 
specified in this title.^ 

§ 112 The chairman of the board of school visitors or of 
the town school committee or, in case of his absence or in- 



' Rules as to attendance see § 17 

In the absence of rules prescribed by the school board or other proper 
authority the teacher may make all necessary and proper rules for the regula- 
tion of the school 53 Conn 481 

2 §38 =^§§2125 

* Chap xvi page 65 ° § 170 ^ Chap v page 21 § 67 
'' Powers and duties not given above are stated in connection with the fol- 
lowing 

1 Vacancies in district offices §164 

2 Enforcement of laws relating to 

a employment of children ^§ 7 24 27 
b attendance 

grant leaving certificates §19 

nominate to selectmen persons to be appointed special constables 
§ 37 



35 

ability to act, the secretary, shall call a meeting of the board <^^«^<^^^s^ 
at least once every six months, and whenever he deems it Revises §2142 
necessary or is requested in writing so to do by three of its 
members. If no meeting is called within fourteen days after boafdcf/com- 
such a request has been made, one may be called by any three ™**^® 
members, by giving the usual written notice to the others. 

3 Norvial school 

shall assist in selection of students § 14 

4 Returns to school visitors by 

a district committee of beginning and close of term § 187 

b district committee of enumeration §§ 187 218 

c district committee of enumeration in the parts of joint districts 

_ § 187 _ 
d district committee of receipts, expenditures, statistics, etc § 187 
e district clerk of nam.es of district officers § 163 

5 School buildings 

a inspection §115 Buildings must be in satisfactory condition §169 
b may iix sites on application of district of adjoining town § 171 

6 Enumeration and distribution of state grants 

a shall make enumeration if committee fails § 218 

b shall examine returns of enumeration § 220 

c shall lodge returns with town treasurer § 220 

d shall make returns to comptroller § 220 

e shall certifiy to comptroller that schools have been kept according 

to law § 223 
f shall withhold certificate if schools have not been kept according to 

law § 227 

7 Estimates 

a shall as a joint board with selectmen make preliminary estimates 
and notify committees § 231 

b shall as joint board with selectmen present estimates to town meet- 
ing g 233 

8 Appropriations 

a shall as joint board with selectmen fix amounts and notify each dis- 
trict § 233 

b may as joint board with selectmen appropriate moneys for school 
libraries § 217 

9 Expenses 

a shall as joint board with selectmen report cost of schools for pre- 
ceding year to town meeting § 233 

b shall as joint board with selectmen pass upon expenses in addition 
to amounts appropriated § 235 

c apportion expenses of joint districts and report to selectmen of each 
town §^ 123 242 

I o Paymen t of teachers 

shall give certificate to selectmen that schools have been kept 
according to law § 235 

I I Consolidated districts 

on abandonment of town system town school committee remains 
board of visitors § 208"' 

12 May in connection with committee admit nonresident scholars to district 
schools § 172 

13 May discontinue small schools and provide transportation § 239 

14 May make complaint to board of health when sanitary condition of 
schoolhouse is unsatisfactory § 280 



36 



6 3 sec ei69 
1872 1882 
ECT 1888 §2146 

Duties of secre- 
tary 



as sec 2170 

1882 
Rev 1888 §2147 

Forfeitures to 
be reported 



GSsecS165 
1656 1872 1884 
Rev 1888 §2143 

1893 ch41 
Duties of acting 
school visitors 



§ 113 The secretary of the board of school visitors, or of 
the town school committee, as the case rhay be, shall keep a 
record of all its proceedings and of those of the acting school 
visitors, in a book which he shall provide for that purpose at 
the expense of the town ; shall submit to the town at its annual 
meeting a written report of the doings of the board or com- 
mittee with the report of the acting school visitors ; and on or 
before the fifteenth of October send two copies of said reports 
to the secretary of the state board of education ; and shall fur- 
nish such additional returns and statistics respecting the schools 
of the town as said board may call for. And if the returns and 
statistics called for by the secretary of the state board of edu- 
cation shall not be sent to him on or before said fifteenth of 
October, then every town and every school district required by 
law to make separate returns, whose returns and statistics shall 
be negligently delayed till after that day, shall forfeit of the 
sum per child which is paid from the state treasury one per 
cent, for the first week of such delay, two per cent, for a delay 
of two weeks, three per cent, for a delay of three weeks, five 
per cent, for a delay of four weeks, and ten per cent, for a delay 
exceeding four weeks.^ 

§ 114 The secretary of the state board of education shall 
annually, in January, give to the comptroller, in writing, a list 
of the towns and districts which have incurred the forfeiture 
described in § 113, with the percentage of forfeiture in each 
case ; and the comptroller, in making payment of school moneys 
aforesaid, shall deduct the amount of money which each town 
or district shall have forfeited under the provisions of said 
section. 

§ 115 The board of school visitors, the town school com- 
mittee, or the board of education, shall annually assign the dut)^ 
of visiting the schools of the town to one or more of their 
number, who shall be called the acting school visitor, or 
visitors,^ and who shall visit such schools at least twice during 
each term, once within four weeks after the opening, and again 
during the four weeks preceding the close ; at which visit the 
schoolhouse and outbuildings, school registef ,^ and library* shall 
be examined, and the studies, discipline, mode of teaching, and 
general condition of the school investigated. Half a day shall 
be spent in each school so visited, unless otherwise directed. 
They shall, one week at least before the annual town meeting, 
submit to the board or to the committee, as the case may be, 



»§ii » See ch X page.40 * § 215 * ^h xv 



37 

a full written report of their proceedings, and of the condition 
of the several schools during the year preceding, with plans 
and suggestions for their improvement. 

§ ii6 Boards of education, town school committees, and GSsecsm 
boards of school visitors may appoint a person, not one of their j^^^ igsf §2144 
own number, to be acting school visitor or superintendent^ of Acting school 
schools, who shall have all the powers, perform all the duties, ^i^enden't ^"^^^'^' 
and receive the pay prescribed by law for acting school visitors. 
Any town at its annual town meeting, or at a special meeting 
duly called for that purpose, may fix the compensation of the 
acting school visitor or superintendent. 

§ 117 The secretary and other acting school visitors shall &s seems 
receive two dollars a day each while actually employed, and a EevS§3734 
like proportion for parts of days, and such further compensa- o°^??f^***^'^ 
tion as their respective towns may fix at an annual meeting, visitors 

§ 118 School visitors, town school committees, or boards ffssecssus 
of education shall, as a board, or by a committee by them ap- ^^^Rey^iyi'''^ 
pointed, examine^ all persons desiring to teach in the public ^Ifg^^glgf 
schools ; and give to those with whose moral character and ^^^,5^1^57 §4 

1895 ciL 304 

ability they are satisfied, if found qualified to teach reading, woi eh si §5 
writing, arithmetic, and grammar, the rudiments of geography 

J1-, 1,1 1- . r J • • r •1'? Examination of 

and history, and the rudiments of drawing if required,'^ a cer- teachers; certia- 
tificate authorizing the holder to teach in any public school in ^^^^ 
the town or district so long as desired, without further exami- 
nation unless specially ordered ; such certificate may limit the 
authority to teach to a specified time or in a specified school. 
No certificate to teach in grades above the third in graded 
schools nor in classes corresponding to such grades in un- 
graded schools shall be granted to any person who has not 
passed a satisfactory examination in hygiene, including the 
effects of alcohol and narcotics on health and character.* If 
a person is examined and found qualified to teach branches 
other than those required in all cases, such branches shall be 
named in his certificate. Said certificate shall be signed by a 
majority of the board or committee or by all the members of the 
committee appointed to examine. They may revoke the cer- 
tificates of such teachers as shall at any time be found incom- 
petent to teach or to manage a school, or fail to conform to their 
requirements.^ 

§ 119 Town school committees, boards of education, and ossecnis 
high school and district committees unless otherwise directed Rev isss 
by the district or ordered by the town, shall employ and dis- i^f^ifmr 
miss the teachers for the. schools of their respective towns or igfl^ch^m. 

' |§ 129 133 2 §§ 129 133 s See §§ 17 38 * § 43 

^ General certificate of teacher is sufficient in any district of the town where 
issued 36 Conn 282 



38 



May employ 
teachers 



O S sec SSU9 
. 1895 ch 67 

School visitor 
not to be teacher 



G S sec SSU2 
State grant 



e S sec 2167 

1856 1870 1879 

Kev 1888 §2145 

1899 ch, 19 

1907 ch. 81 §3 



Report to comp- 
troller 



districts f but no district committee shall employ a teacher for 
a longer period of time than that for which he may have been 
elected without first obtaining, at a meeting of said district 
legally called for that purpose, a majority vote in favor of such 
proposed action. Any town, imless otherwise provided, may 
direct the school visitors to employ the teachers for all public 
schools of the town for such terms of the schools as it may 
specify. 

§ 120 No. person elected to the office of school visitor 
or town school committee shall be employed as teacher in the 
town where he is school visitor or member of the town school 
committee. If any school visitor or member of the town school 
committee shall be employed, contrary to the provisions of this 
section, the office of school visitor or town school committee to 
which he was elected shall become vacant. 

§ 121 The selection of all books and apparatus under 
§ 2i6 shall be made or approved by the board of school visitors, 
or the town school committee, which shall also prescribe the 
rules for their management, use, and safe-keeping. The books 
and apparatus purchased under the provisions of § 217 shall 
remain the property of the town and under the care and control 
of the library committee. 

§ 122 The board of school visitors, town school commit- 
tee or board of education, as the case may be, shall make re- 
turns, signed by the chairman and secretary, of the number of 
persons over four and under sixteen years of age in their re- 
spective towns,^ to the comptroller, and shall in said returns 
specify how many of those thus returned were attending some 
school, public or private, in October when said enumeration 
was made, and how many were not so attending; how many 
of those who were not attending school were under five years 
of age, how many were over five and under seven, how many 
were over seven and under fourteen, and how many were over 
fourteen and under sixteen 5''ears of age, and the chairman and 
secretary shall draw orders on him for the public money due 



^ Teacher may be discharged by the district, and in absence of action by the 
district may be discharged by the committee 33 Conn 304 

If improperly discharged by the committee the district may compel rein- 
statement 33 Conn 305 306 

Previous to enactment of § 188 a teacher might be employed by the commit- 
tee for a period extending beyond committee's term of office. 36 Conn 282 

Is not a public officer in ordinary sense of word ; his v/ages are subject to 
attachment 53 Conn 509 

Status of teacher as to district lb 

^ §§ 218 219 220 221 Blanks for this purpose are distributed by the comp- 
troller 



39 

the town as prescribed in chapter xvii.^ No town shall receive 
any money for schools from the state treasury unless the re- 
turns herein required are made.^ 

§ 123 After the close of each term of school in any dis- as see sue 
trict the school visitors shall arive to the selectmen a certificate i?56 wo 1879 

11 1 1 1 ?■ 1 1 • ,1 Eey 1888 §2145 

Stating whether each school has been kept m all respects ac- certificate to 
cording to law or not ; and shall, in connection with the select- selectmen 
men, perform the duties required by the provisioris of chapter 
xvii, and make the apportionment required in the case of dis- 
tricts formed from parts of two or more towns, as prescribed in 
§ 242.^ 

§ 124 The board of school visitors of each town shall as sec mi 
annually, in the month of October, return to the secretary of the j^gv i^§2i48 
state board of education, the names and post-office addresses of Report of name 
the district committees ; and within four weeks from the be- mute^^and*""" 
ginning of each school term the board of school visitors or the <^^«'=^^''^ 
town school committee, as the case may be, shall return the 
name and post-office address of each teacher employed in the 
public schools within their respective towns. 

§ 125 No board of school visitors, town school committee, GSsecsieo 
or board of education of any district shall change any text- Ke'?/^^§2i36 
books used in the public schools except by a two-thirds vote change of text- 
of all the members of the board or committee, notice of such ^°°^^ 
intended change having been previously given .at a meeting of 
said board or committee held at least one week previous to the 
vote upon such change f but the board of education, the board 
of school visitors, or the town school committee, may, in ad- 
dition to the text -books prescribed according to the provisions 
of § III, prescribe the use of other books as text-books in read- 
ing; provided, such additional series are purchased by the 
district or town and the use thereof furnished free to the 
scholars. 

§ 126 The board of school visitors, town school commit- GSsecsiei 
tee, or board of education, may require every child to be vac- Re\a888^^3r 
cinated before being permitted to attend a public school under ^^^ ch 54 §1 
its jurisdiction. If the parents or guardians of any children ^iiooTchMren 
are unable to pay. for such vaccination, the expense thereof 
shall, on the recommendation of said board or committee, be 
paid by the town. Said board or committee may exclude from 
any school under its supervision all children under five years of 
age whenever in its judgment the interest of such school willi)e 
thereby promoted.* 

'§223 2 gg 235 244 ^ § 45 ■ . 

"• Statute held to be constitutional and a reasonable exercise of the police 
power 65 Conn 183 



40 



O S sec 2 ns 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2149 
Preservation of 
books and 
records 

G S sec Sirs 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2151 
Reports and re- 
turns, how 
sworn to 



§ 127 All school officers shall preserve all books and 
documents of permanent value pertaining to schools which 
come into their hands by virtue of their offices, and transmit 
them to their successors. 

§ 128 All reports or returns required to be made by a 
school officer on oath or affirmation may be affirmed or sworn 
to before any school visitor, member of a town school com- 
mittee, or member of a board of education. 



1903 ch 195 §1 



School officers 
may choose su- 
perintendent by 
majority vote 



1S03 ch 195 I 



Organization of 
supervision dis- 
txict 



Supervision dis- 
trict committee 



District con- 
tinues three 
years 

Dissolution 



1903 ch 195 §3 



Chapter X 
Supervision of Schools 

§ 129 The town school committee or board of educa- 
tion or board of school visitors of any town may choose by 
ballot a superintendent^ of schools and may fix the salary^ and 
prescribe the duties of said superintendent, which shall always 
include the duties of acting visitor as now prescribed by law. 
A majority vote of all the members of the committee or board 
shall be necessary to an election. 

§ 130 Two or more towns together employing not less 
than twenty-five nor more than fifty teachers may unite, by 
vote of the town school committee, board of school visitors, or 
board of education, as the case may be, for the purpose of em- 
ploying a superintendent of schools, and towns so united shall 
form a supervision district. The town school committee, board 
of school visitors, or board of education of towns so united 
are hereby authorized to make all arrangements, agreements, 
and regulations necessary to the organization and maintenance 
of a supervision district. Said school officers of each of the ^ 
towns constituting a separate district shall appoint one of their 
number as a member of a supervision committee, and the com- 
mittee so appointed shall be a joint committee on behalf of the 
several towns constituting the supervision district. Each town 
shall be entitled to one vote in said joint committee, and said 
joint committee may employ a superintendent, fix and apportion 
the salary of said superintendent, and manage the afifairs of said 
district. Every district organized under the provisions of this 
section shall continue three years, and at the end of three years 
any town may dissolve a district by withdrawal. Notice of 
the intent to withdraw shall be given in writing to the other 
t^wns of the district at least three months before the termina- 
ion of the three-year period. 

§ 131 The secretary of each town school committee, 
board of school visitors, or board of education taking advantage 



§ 116 



^1:7 



41 

of § 130 shall, annually, on or before the fourteenth day of July, 
certify to the state board of education the amount actually paid 
as salary to the superintendent for the current school year, and, salary of su- 
whenever a superintendent has been employed according to the p'^"'^^^'^ ®°* 
provisions of § 130, the comptroller shall, upon application of 
the state board of education, draw an order on the treasurer on 
behalf of said town for one-half the sum certified ; provided, that state grant 
not more than eight hundred dollars be paid by the state to any 
supervision district for one year, and provided that no super- 
vision district shall receive more from the state than the district 
itself has paid to the superintendent. 

§ 132 No person shall be eligible for appointment under 1903 ch 195 §4 
8 1 30 who has not had at least five years' successful experience who eiigiwe as 

" . -' , , ._ superintendent 

as a teacher or supermtendent, or who does not hold a certifi- 
cate of approval by the state board of education. 

§ 133 The town school committee or board of school 1903 ch 195 §5 
visitors or board of education of any town employing not more state board of 
than twenty teachers may petition the state board of education, appoint agent 
or such town may by vote request the state board of educa- ^^^°^ ^^ ^ ^°^ 
tion, and the state board of education, when so petitioned or 1907 ch 259. 
requested, is hereby authorized to appoint an agent who shall 
discharge the duties of superintendent^ and who shall be quali- 
fied as provided in § 132. Any town for which a superin- 
tendent is appointed under the provisions of this section shall 
pay one-quarter of the salary of said superintendent and the state grant 
state shall pay three-quarters, and the amount paid by the state 
shall be paid in the manner provided in § 131. 

Chapter XI 
School Districts 

General Statutes, Chapter 13s, page 570 

§ 134' In the absence of a special appointment the com- GSsecsm 
mittee of a school district shall be the agent ex oMcio of said Rev 1888 §3152 

. ° District com- 

dlStriCt. mittee to be ex 

§ 135 ^Each town shall have power to form, unite, alter, ^snecms 

and dissolve school districts and parts of school districts Kevi888§2i53 

within its limits ; and two or more towns may form school dis- po/matiOTi^ind 

tricts of adjoining portions of their respective towns.^ tJhoofdistricts 

1 § 116 

^ Name of school district fixed by the inhabitants 13 Conn 234 

^ School districts, for educational purposes, are component parts of towns or 
societies 15 Conn 335 

Power of town, how affected by appeal to and decree by the superior court 
54 Conn 52 ; 55 Conn 245 246 

Limits of school district formed by annexation may be shown otherwise 
than by record evidence 54 Conn 76 77 



42 

^^"im^ § 136 Whenever a school district is formed from parts 

Rev 1888 §2154 of two or morc towns, either of said towns may divide such dis- 

1893 ch 63 -^ 



1897 ch 24 §2 trict by uniting the portions lying in said town with any ad- 

Jivision of dis- • • •„•„ j* . • , ,1 • 1 

tricts formed of joining distnct therein/ 

6;TJJw7' § 137 Every school district shall be a body corporate.^ 

EevS§fi55 And shall have power to sue and be sued/ to purchase, re- 

Powers of school ceivc, hold, and convey real and personal property for school 
di«tricte purposes; 

To build, purchase, hire, and repair schoolhouses, and sup- 
ply them with fuel, furniture, and other appendages and accom- 
modations ;* 

To establish schools of different grades f 

To purchase globes, maps, blackboards, and other school 
apparatus ; 

To establish and maintain a school library;^ 

To employ teachers, except for such time as the town may 
direct the school visitors to employ the teachers f 

And shall pay the wages of such teachers as are employed by 
the district committee in conformity to law f 

To lay taxes and borrow money for all the foregoing pur- 
poses f 

And to make all lawful agreements and regulations for es- 
tablishing and conducting schools, not inconsistent with the 

' Procedure §140 

'■* Every inhabitant of a school district is a party to a suit brought against it 
and his property may be taken on an execution issued against it 10 Conn 395 
See 26 Conn 527 

^ Districts may sue by the name by which they are generally known 13 
Conn 227 

What is sufficient warning of meeting of school district 13 Conn 234 • 

The records of a school district are evidence of its votes in a suit to which 
it is a party 13 Conn 235 

A debt owed by a school district may be taken by foreign attachment 53 
Conn 509 Status of teachers as to district defined li 

* The character and cost of school buildings, within broad limits, is left to 
the school district Courts will not interfere with this discretion except in clear 
cases of abuse 25 Conn 227 ; 63 Conn 131 Extent of discretionary power of 
school district illustrated 25 Conn 227 228 

Schoolhouse may not be used for religious purposes against objection of 
taxpayer, and injunction will lie against such use 27 Conn 503-505 

District committee must obey the vote of the district as to rooms and 
teachers ; the committee's authority is contingent on the district failing to act 
33 Conn 304 

A schoolhouse is not an outhouse within the meaning of the statute relat- 
ing to burglarious entrance of outhouse 10 Conn 144 145 

^ A school district has all necessary power to establish and maintain a 
school within its limits 33 Conn 304 

* Ch xvi page 65 ' §§ 40 42 213 ^ §§ 188 212 213 214 

^ A vote laying a tax is sufficiently definite if it is reasonably clear that the 
tax was imposed for a legitimate purpose 12 Conn 437-439 

School districts are limited in power to raise and expend money for the sole 
purposes set forth in the statute 60 Conn 234 235 



43 

regulations of the town having jurisdiction of the schools in 
such district^ 

§ 138 The name, number, and limits of every school dis- GSsecsns 
trict shall be entered on its records, and on the records of the Revisis^ise 
town or towns to which it belongs.^ fnTboundT""^ 

§ 139 When the boundary lines of any district are not as sec mo 
clearly settled and defined the selectmen of the town in which Eevi8^§2i5r 
it is situated shall settle and define the same ; they shall also settlement of 
settle and define the boundary lines of any new district ; when ^^""^^'^ '"^^^ 
said selectmen cannot agree in settling and defining said lines, 
the town to which said district belongs may appoint three in- 
different persons for that purpose, who shall have the same 
authority therein as is herein conferred upon said selectmen ; 
and when parts of such districts lie in two or more towns, the 
selectmen of the towns in which ■ any part is situated, or, in 
case of disagreement, three indifferent persons appointed by a 
judge of the superior court on application by either town and 
notice to the other, shall settle and define the boundary lines 
of such part. 

§ 140 When it is proposed to form, alter, unite, or dissolve ossecsiso 
any school district or districts, notice that such change is pro- Rev I888 §2158 
posed shall be posted on the schoolhouse in each school district ^^^^ °^ ^^ 
to be affected, or, if there be no schoolhouse in any of such posaj toauer 
school districts, at the usual place for posting warnings for ^'^^°°' *®'^^'°'^ 
meetings of such districts, and printed in a newspaper or news- 
papers published in the town to which such districts or any one 
of them may belong, if any there be ; and a copy of such notice 
shall be left with the clerk of each of said districts at least 
fifteen days before the town is called to act upon the propo- 
sition.^ 

§ 141 When application shall be made to a town to form, '^ssec2i8i 
alter, or dissolve a school district, or to unite two or more Rev 1888 §2159 
school districts, any district aggrieved by the action or neglect Appeals by dis- 

' -' oo -^ , °. tncts aggi-ieved 

of action of the town may appeal from such action or neglect 
of action to the superior court in the county in which such 
town is situated, within one year next after such action or 
neglect, by an application containing a brief statement, that 
such an appeal is taken, by whom, and from what, signed by 

' The votes and proceedings of school districts, if within their jurisdiction, 
will be liberally construed 15 Conn 332 454 

' §50 If proper officer fails to make record he can be compelled to do it 
by writ of mandamus, but the omission of it does not affect the legal existence 
of the district 52 Conn 44 

^ Object of statute is to give more extended notice than by the ordinary 
warning 52 Conn 46 Form of notice not essential ; not necessary to state the 
business in detail 52 Conn 46 ; 55 Conn 246 The provisions de notice do not 
apply to proposed vote of a town to assume control of schools 73 Conn 170 



44. 



Q S sec S1S2 
1865 1872 
Rev 1888 §2160 

Proceedings on 
appeal 



O S sec 2183 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2161 
1893 ch 123 



Disposition of 
property on 
alteration of 
district 

G S sec nSU 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2162 
1893 ch 123 §1 

Divided district 
property and 
debts 



O 8 sec S1S5 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2162 
1893 ch 123 §2 

Powers of 
superior court 



the agent of the appellant ; to which shall be annexed a citation 
signed by proper authority, notifying the appellees to appear 
at the court to which such appeal is taken. Service thereof 
shall be made by some proper officer by leaving a true and at- 
tested copy of such appeal and citation with the town clerk, and 
with the clerk or one of the district committee of any other 
district interested, at least twelve days before the session of 
the court.^ 

§ 142 Said court shall have the same powers to act upon 
said application that said town had, and may appoint a com- 
mittee, to report the facts and its opinion thereon and the final 
decree of the court shall be recorded in the records of said 
town ; and said court may allow and tax costs at its discretion, 
including fees for surveys, copies, and recording decree. Un- 
less the town shall thereafter abolish all the school districts and 
parts of districts within its limits no alteration of the lines fixed 
by such decree shall be made, except by the superior court of 
such county ; which shall have original jurisdiction of an appli- 
cation for the purpose made by any district interested.^ 

§ 143 When any districts shall be consolidated the new 
district shall own all the property of the several districts ; and 
when a district shall be divided its property, or the income and 
proceeds thereof, shall be distributed among the several parts 
in proportion to the number of persons between four and six- 
teen years of age in each. 

§ 144 Whenever any school district has been or shall 
hereafter be divided into two or more districts, and the said 
districts cannot agree upon the distribution of the property and 
assets of said districts between the districts, or cannot agree 
upon the proportion that each district shall pay of the debts of 
the district owing at the time of the division, either of said dis- 
tricts may bring its complaint to the superior court in the 
county in which either of said districts is located, praying for 
such relief as it claims it is entitled to. 

§ 145 Such complaint shall state the facts upon which 
the plaintiff claims relief, and shall be served upon the re- 
spondent district as in civil actions, and said court may dis- 
tribute the property and assets between the districts or set the 

' Legal existence and limits of district may be shown by prescription 54 _ 
Conn 79 The court is not limited in its action to allowance or disallowance, of 
application ; it may allow application in part 5 5 Conn 246 

^ Decree of court annulling action of the town is not such a fixing of lines 
as would preclude further action by the town 54 Conn 52 

The statute should be liberally construed 54 Conn 53 

Court is not limited to affirming or reversing action of the town ; the appli- 
cation may be allowed in part 55 C 246 

Authority of court to act is limited only by the preliminary notice and the 
warning of the town meeting //> 



45 

entire property and assets to one district as it shall find for the 
best interests of the district ; and in case the property and assets 
are set to one of said districts, shall find and decree the sum of 
money that such district so receiving said property shall pay 
to the other district. Said court shall find and decree the pro- 
portion that each district shall pay of the debts and liabilities 
outstanding at the time of the division. 

§ 146 All associations under the act of 1841, allowing GSsecsm 
any two or more adjoining school districts to associate to- Eevl^s^loa 
gether and form a union district, entered into before the repeal Associations 
of said act, shall continue to be managed according to the aci^ns™^*"^ 
provisions of said act, unless the town shall abolish or con- 
solidate all the school districts within its limits.^ 

§ 147 The schools in every school district formed from ossecsm 
parts of two or more towns shall be under the charge and Revises §2164 
direction of the town in which the schoolhouse is situated, un- fri^tefom^d*' 
les? the towns shall otherwise agree.^ from parts of 

o ^ ^ towns 

§ 148 Whenever any school district which has or shall i905ciii3r§i 
hereafter become indebted by judgment for indebtedness in- 
curred by such district shall be located in two or more towns, S* pa*y debts^of 
the committee of such school district, or, if there be no district jo^^^t school dis- 
committee for said district the selectmen of the town in which 
the schoolhouse in such district is located, shall cause a tax suf- 
ficient to pay such indebtedness as shall be presented or ex- 
hibited to said committee or selectmen, as the case may be, by 
the judgment creditor or creditors, including the cost of levying 
and collecting such tax, to be laid, upon and according to the 
levies or assessment lists of said towns last before completed, on 
the district in the manner provided by law for school district 
taxes, except that, when there is no district committee for said 
district, the selectmen of said town wherein the schoolhouse is 
located shall perform the duties required by law of the district 
committee therein, and the tax collector of said town shall per- 
form the duties of tax collector of said district. Said tax 
shall be collected and paid to said judgment creditor or credi- 
tors, and to the persons entitled to fees and compensation for 
levying and collecting said tax. 

§ 149 Whenever either of the towns in which such school 
district is located shall vote to consolidate its school districts 
and bring the same under town management, and shall subse- uonTif town^*^*" 
quently vote to return to the district system, then such school ^o^fistricf'sy's'^ 
district shall be, in law, the same school district as existed stS'i'bf the 
prior to said vote of consolidation of districts and liable for the fy^^^ nabl^for 
indebtedness of said district as then existing. '^^^ts- 

' Ch xiv page 56 ^ ^§ 123 242 



46 



OS sec 3188 
1856 1861 1868 

1872 1886 
Rev 1888 §2166 
Annual and 
special meet- 
ings 
S sec. 2189 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2166 

District meet- 
ings, ^Yhere held 



G Ssec 2190 
1833 1851 1856 

1885 
Rev 1888 §2167 

Notice of dis- 
trict meetings 



G S sec S191 
1856 1879 1880 

1881 
Rev 1888 §2168 

See §1631 
Legal voters of 
school district 
G SsecSlQS 

1884 
Rev 1888 §2169 

What paupers 
may vote in 
school meetings 



§ 150 Every school district shall hold an annual meeting 
in the month of June, for the choice of officers, and for the 
transaction of any other business relating to schools, and shall 
hold a special meeting when the same shall be duly called.^ 

§ 151 District meetings shall be held at the district school- 
house ; but if there be no suitable schoolhouse the committee, 
if there be one, otherwise the clerk, and if there be no com- 
mittee or clerk the selectmen of the town to which said district 
belongs, shall determine the place of meeting, which shall in 
all cases be within the district. ' 

§ 152 ^Notice of the time, place, and object of every meet- 
ing of the district shall be given at least five days previous to 
holding it, including the day the notice is given but not includ- 
ing the day of holding said meeting. The committee, or, if 
there be no such committee, the clerk, or, if there be no com- 
mittee or clerk, the selectmen of the town, shall give notice of 
a district meeting, either by publishing the same in a newspaper 
printed in the district, or by posting a notice on the school- 
house or on the signpost in the district, or in some other mode 
previously designated by the district; but if there be no such 
newspaper, schoolhouse, or signpost, or other mode so desig- 
nated, the selectmen of the town to vv^hich said district belongs 
shall determine how the notice shall be given. The person or 
persons giving such notice shall, on the day of giving it, leave 
a duplicate of it with the clerk, if any, of the district, if not, 
with the selectmen to be delivered to the clerk when appointed, 
who shall preserve it on file. 

§ 153 The legal voters of a school district shall consist 
only of the legal voters of the town or towns in which said 
district is situated who have resided in said school district for 
the period of four months next preceding. 

§ 154 No inmate of the almshouse of any town, other 
than the officers and employees of the town residing therein, 
shall vote at any school meeting of the district wherein such 
almshouse is situated, unless a resident of such district at the 
time of his becoming such inmate. 



' §§ ^57 ^S6 Meeting should be opened within a reasonable time after the 
hour specified ; what is such reasonable time 13 Conn 234 Meeting presumed 
to have been legally held, pursuant to the warning lb 

Record of meeting is admissible to show vote of district 13 Conn 235 ; 
but see 44 Conn 160 

^ A warning which fairly sets forth the purposes of the meeting, held suffi- 
cient 13 Conn 234 ; 15 Conn 332 ; 52 Conn 46 ; 55 Conn 246 

Posting warning on one signpost in the district held sufficient 15 Conn 332 
What notice would be insufficient 44 Conn 159; 53 Conn 578; 60 Conn 168 
Where original vote was illegal a vote not to rescind at a later meeting 
does not validate original vote 53 Conn 579 ; but see 52 Conn 49 



Chapter 138, Public Acts of 1907 

An Act Amending an Act Concerning the Warnings of Town, City, 
Borough, and other Meetings 

This Act amends Section 152 on the opposite page 

Sec. 2, Section 2190 of the general statutes is hereby 
amended to read as follows : Notice of the time, place, and 
object of every meeting of the district shall be given at least 
five days previous to holding it, including the day the notice is 
given, but not including the day of holding said meeting. The 
committee, or, if there be no such committee, the clerk, or, if 
there be no committee or clerk, the selectmen of the town, shall 
give notice of a district meeting by publishing the same in a 
newspaper published in the district or having a circulation 
therein, and by posting a notice on the schoolhouse, if any 
there be, or on the signposts, if any there be, in the district, 
unless some other mode shall have been previously designated 
by the district, in which case notice in such mode may be sub- 
stituted for such posting; provided, that the committee of any 
district having an enumeration of less than one hundred may, 
on giving notice by posting as hereinbefore provided, or, on 
giving notice in some other mode previously designated by the 
district, in its discretion, omit the notice by publication in a 
newspaper. The person or persons giving such notice shall, 
on the day of giving it, leave a duplicate of such notice with 
the clerk of the district, or, if there be no clerk, with the select- 
men, to be delivered to the clerk when appointed, who shall 
preserve the same on file. 



47 

§ 155 In every school district whose hmits are the same ossecsm 
as the Hmits of the town in which it is situated the town registry ^^^ ^^i^^^ 
Hst shall be the registry list for school purposes/ and in every ^^"^seel^^i^ 
otner school district enumerating four hundred or more chil- condnctofmeet- 
dren, as returned to the comptroller, the registrars of voters ing-, registry list 
of the town in which the schoolhouse of said district is situated 
shall have the same powers in reference to voting lists, appoint- 
ing moderators and box tenders of school district meetings, as 
they now have in the election of town, city, or ward officers ; 
and said registrars of voters shall, upon the written request of 
twenty or more legal voters of said school district deposited 
with either of said registrars of voters at least twenty days be- 
fore the annual meeting of said district, prepare and complete 
a correct list of all the legal voters of said school district, and 
lodge the same with the clerk of said district at least five days 
before said annual meeting; and in every other school district 
the clerk of said district shall, upon the written request of 
twenty or more legal voters of such district, lodged with said 
clerk at least twenty days before the annual meeting of said 
district, prepare the check list of the legal voters of said dis- 
trict, to be used at any meeting for the election of officers in 
said district, or for the taking of any vote by ballot which may 
be requested by one-third of the legal voters present at any 
meeting of the school district; said clerk shall add to said list 
the name of any legal voter omitted, and erase therefrom the 
name of any person improperly entered thereon, and for this 
purpose he shall have all the powers within said district which 
the registrars of voters have in their respective towns. 

§ 156 Whenever one-third of the legal voters present at CfSsecsisu 
any meeting of a school district having such registration shall Revi^pni 
request that any vote or votes upon any question pending be- vote by baiiot, 
fore such meeting shall be taken by ballot and check list of the taken^ ^^^ 
legal voters of said district the chairman of such meeting shall 
cause said vote or votes to be so taken, and if said vote or votes 
cannot be then and there conveniently and properly taken, he 
shall, upon the like request of said one-third of the legal voters 
present, adjourn said meeting to the usual polling place or 
places in said district, if there be any, and, if there be none, 
then to the most suitable and convenient place or places in said 
district, at such time within one week thereafter as he may 
designate, when and where said vote or votes shall be taken be- 
tween the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock 
in the afternoon, and the result shall be ascertained and de- 
clared by said chairman, and recorded by the clerk upon the 
records of said district. 

' § ^90 



48 



O a sec ei95 

1881 
R<:v 1888 §2172 

Special meet- 
in srs 



G S sec S196 

1881 
Rev 1888 §2173 

Compensatiou 
for preparing 
lists 



G S sec 2197 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2174 

Illegal voting in 
district meeting 



G S sec S198 

1856 

Rev 1888 §2175 

1889 oh 47 §1 

1889 ch 125 

1893 ch 201 

1885 ch 131 

Committee and 
other officers of 
district 



§ 157 Upon the written request of twenty or more legal 
voters of any school district having such registration to the 
committee to call a special meeting to vote by ballot and check 
list upon any resolutions appended to such request, said com- 
mittee shall call such meeting within three weeks thereafter, 
at some suitable time and place in such district, to be particu- 
larly stated in the call, when and where said vote or votes shall 
be taken, and the result ascertained, declared, and recorded in 
the manner provided in § 156. Upon like request, the com- 
mittee of any school district having such registration shall 
cause all elections of officers of such district to be had by ballot 
and check list. 

§ 158 The compensation of each of said registrars of 
voters, or of said district clerks for preparing said lists, shall 
be the same per diem as that paid by the town in which said 
district is situated to said registrars of voters, for preparing 
the voting lists used at state, town, city, or ward elections, and 
shall be paid by the treasurer of the school district for which 
such list is prepared. 

§ 159 Every meeting may choose its own moderator,^ and 
may adjourn^ from time to time to meet at the same or some 
other place in the district. Every person who shall vote il- 
legally in any school district meeting shall be fined not more 
than thirty dollars.-^ 

§ 160 Each school district, unless otherwise provided by 
law, shall choose by ballot, at the annual meeting,* a committee" 
of not more than three persons, a clerk, who shall be sworn,® 
a treasurer, and a collector,'^ who shall hold their respective 
offices for the period of one year from the fifteenth day of July 
next succeeding, and until others are chosen and qualified f and 
any resident of the district so chosen who shall refuse or neglect 
to perform the duties of the office, shall pay five dollars to said 
district ; but any new district may at its first or at any subse- 
quent meeting, called by the selectmen of the town, choose its 

• Majority of ballots cast is requisite for election of any of the officers 24 
Conn 34 ^ 162 

^ An adjourned meeting may hold an election of officers 16 
3 §153 * § 150 5 chxiiipage 55 

* Form of oath You solemnly svsrear that you will faithfully discharge 
according to law your duties as clerk of the district to the best of your ability ; 
so help you God Gen Stat § 4795 

The clerk need not take the oath of office immediately after his election, or 
before taking the minutes of the proceedings of a district meeting ; provided he 
takes it before he performs any regular official act, such as making or sanc- 
tioning a formal record 15 Conn 333 What are the official acts of the 
clerk lb 

■> Gen Stat § 2381 

^ Former officer holds over only until a legal election of his successor 
42 Conn 35 



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officers who shall hold office till the annual meeting of such 
district. The members of the district committee shall be resi- 
dents of the district ; but the other offices may be filled by any 
inhabitants of the town to which said district belongs, 

§ i6i Any school district having by its last enumeration & ssee^nj:' 
not less than two hundred children between four and sixteen Rev 1888 piro 
years of age, may, at any annual meeting, due notice being in- 
serted in the call therefor, order that its committee shall consist disSlcts havkKr 
of three persons chosen by ballot, divided into three classes g^dj^^^^'"®*^ " 
holding office for one, two, and three years, and that annually 
thereafter one member shall be chosen by ballot, to hold office 
for three years. Should a vacancy occur the remaining mem- 
bers of the committee may fill it until the next annual district 
meeting, when all vacancies shall be filled. Whenever a district 
has appointed its committee as herein provided such district 
may, at any special meeting called for the purpose, vote that it 
will no longer so appoint its committee ; thereupon the terms of 
office of all the members of its committee shall end at its next 
annual meeting and thereafter its committee shall be appointed 
according to the provisions of § 160. 

S 162 In the election of officers of a school district a *^' '^' ««^;^'^ 

. . . 1879 

majority^ of the votes cast shall be required to elect, unless Revisaspirr 

^,^ y 1 . J J ^ Majority to 

otherwise expressly provided. elect 

S 163 The clerk of every school district shall, within Gi!.sec»soi 
thirty days after the election of officers in such district, for- Revissspr/^ 
ward to the secretary of the board of school visitors of the 
town wherein said school district is located, a certified list of 
the officers elected at such meeting, together with the post- cenificate of 
office address of each. If a district is situated partly in two officers 
or more towns such list shall be sent to the secretary of the 
board of school visitors of each of said towns. Every clerk 
who shall fail to comply with any provision of this section shall 
be fined not more than ten dgllars. 

§ 164 If a district, at the time for the annual meeting, GSsec-nm 
shall fail to appoint all, or any, of its officers, or if a vacancy p^g^.j^lgj^ 
shall occur, the school visitors of the town to which such dis- vacancies, how 
trict belongs shall make such appointment and fill such vacancy ; ^"^^ 
and shall lodge the names of the officers, so appointed, with the 
district clerk. This section shall not apply to vacancies occur- 
ring under the provisions of § 161. 

' A plurality vote taken by ballot is insufficient to elect the committee of a 
school district even if they be afterward declared elected by a viva voce major 
vote 42 Conn 34 



50 



O S$ee SiOS 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2180 
Duties of 
officers 



G S sec iSOU 

ia56 

Rev 1888 §2181 

Bonds may be 
required 

O SsecSSOO 

1878 
Rev 1888 §2182 

Records and 
papers to be 
open to inspec- 
tion 



G S see 2206 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2183 

Neglect of dis- 
trict to open 
school 



G S Sfc 2S07 

1870 
Rev 1888 §2184 
Every district 
must have a 
schoolhouse 
G S sec S208 

1856 
Rev 1888 §2185 
Erection of 
schoolhouse 



G 8 sec SS09 
1794 1868 1874 

1878 
Rev 1888 §2186 

Site of school- 
honse how fixed 



§ 165 The clerk/ treasurer,^ aiid collector^ of each school 
district shall exercise the same powers and perform the same 
duties, in their respective districts,^ as the clerks, treasurers, 
and collectors of towns do in their respective towns. 

§ 166 Any district may require the treasurer and col- 
lector respectively to give bonds to the district, to the approval 
of the district committee, for the faithful discharge of the 
duties of their respective offices, before assuming such duties. 

§ 167 All records and papers relating to or affecting the 
interest of any school district shall at all times be open to the 
inspection and examination of any person liable to pay taxes 
in said district. Every clerk of a school district: wilfully con- 
cealing, refusing, or neglecting to furnish reasonable access to 
any such records or papers, or giving false or incorrect informa- 
tion as to the same, shall be fined not more than twenty-five 
dollars.* 

§ 168 In case of the refusal or neglect by a district to em- 
ploy a teacher and keep open a school during the usual portion 
of the year the school visitors of the town having jurisdiction 
over such district may employ teachers, and keep open a public 
school in the schoolhouse of said district for the period for 
which the town would be obliged during that school year to 
maintain a school in such district f but the whole expense of a 
school thus opened shall be paid by the town on the order of the 
selectmen, upon their receiving a certificate of the amount 
thereof from the school visitors ; and, in any such case, the 
town shall be entitled to receive the same payments from the 
state as if such school had been kept open by such district in the 
usual manner. 

§ 169 No district shall be entitled to receive any money 
from the state, or town, unless it has a schoolhouse and out- 
buildings, satisfactory to the board of school visitors.^ 

§ 170 No new district schoolhouse shall be built except 
according to a plan approved by the board of school visitors 
and by the building committee of such district ; nor at an ex- 
pense exceeding the sum which the district may appropriate 
therefor. 

§ 171 Any school district, by a vote of two-thirds of those 
present and voting at a legally warned meeting of the district,, 
may fix or change the site of a schoolhouse ; but if such two- 
thirds vote cannot be obtained in favor of any site, the school 

» Gen Stat § 1847 « Gen Stat § 1874 « Gen Stat § 2381 

* The records of a school district are legal evidence of its proceedings in a 
suit to which it is a party 13 Conn 235 

' § 38 

* School visitors shall visit and inspect schoolhouses and out-buildings twice 
in each term §115 



51 

visitors of any town adjoining the town or either of the towns 
in which such district is, on application of the district, shall, 
after conferring with the school visitors of the town or towns 
in which such district is situated, fix the site, and make return 
to the town clerk of the town in which such site is located ; and 
shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services from 
said district. 

§ 172 Persons not residing in a school district may attend GSsecsmo 
the public schools therein, if the consent of the committee of Kevi8^^§2i9i 
such district and of the school visitors of the town be first ob- Nonresident 
tained, but not otherwise. ''"^"^ 

§ 173 Any school district or town may, by a vote of two- as sec 3211 
thirds of those present at any legal meeting, allow its school- Rev 1888^193 
house or schoolhouses, when not in use for school purposes, schooihouse 

, 1 J r ,1 1 may be used for 

to be used lor any other purpose.^ other purposes 

§ 174 Any school district may take land which has been ossecuni 
fixed upon as a site, or addition to a site, of a public school- RevTsssl^isT 
house, and which is necessary for such purpose or for out- school district 
buildings or convenient accommodations for its schools, upon ^r^chooilfoifse 
paying to the owner just compensation. 

§ 175 If such school district cannot agree with the owner QSsecuiis 
upon the amount of such compensation, it may prefer its peti- jjevT^slaiss 
tion to the superior court in the county in which the land lies, Proceedings to 
or, if said court is not in session, to either judge thereof, pray- condemn land 
ing that such compensation may be determined ; which shall be 
accompanied by a summons, signed by competent authority, 
notifying the owner of the land to be taken, and all persons in- 
terested therein, to appear before the said court or judge, and 
shall be served as a writ of summons in civil actions ; and, upon 
said petition, said court or judge shall appoint a committee of 
three disinterested men, who, after being sworn, and giving 
reasonable notice to the parties, shall examine the land proposed 
to be taken, and if they approve the site, they shall ascertain 
its value, and assess such sum in favor of the owner as will 
justly compensate him therefor ; but if they do not approve said 
site, they may fix another site on land of the same owner, and 
proceed as aforesaid, and report their doings to said court or 
judge; and their report may be rejected for any irregular or 
improper conduct in the performance of their duties. 

§ 176 If the report be rejected, the court or judge shall ossecuiu 
appoint another committee, who shall proceed in the same ^v/^saiss 

manner as the first committee were required to proceed ; but if Effect of accept- 
ance of report 
' A district cannot without a two-thirds vote order any term of the school 
to be kept elsewhere than in the regular schooihouse 28 Conn 332 As to 
power of the district in this respect prior to enactment of this statute in 1872, 
see 27 Conn 503 507 



52 

it be accepted by said court or judge, such acceptance shall have 
the effect of a judgment in favor of the owner of the land 
against the petitioner, for the amount of the assessment made 
by the committee, and execution may be issued therefor; and 
such court or judge may make any order necessary for the pro- 
tection of the rights of all persons interested in the land taken ; 
but the land shall ngt be used or inclosed by the district, until 
the amount of said judgment shall be paid to the party to whom 
it is due, or deposited for his use with the county treasurer. 
Said district shall pay the committee a reasonable compensation 
for their services, to be taxed by said court or judge. 
G><isecunh § 177 No school district, society, city, or town shall take 

Revi^f^§2i9o ^°^ school purposcs the land of any ecclesiastical society, upon 
1895 ch 27 any part of which a church building has already been erected, 
teiy'iand not to without the conscnt of such ecclesiastical society, or any land 
school^" '""^ devoted to or used for cemetery or burial purposes. 

• Chapter XII 
School District Taxes^ 

General Statutes, Chapter 146, page 626 

OSS6C2U10 § 178^ All taxes imposed by any school district shall be 

^^^ ^1883^^^^ levied on the real estate situated therein, and the ratable per- 
Rev 1888 §3908 soual property and polls of those persons who belonged to said 
taxes, levied on district at the time of laying such tax, which polls shall be set 
in the list at one hundred dollars each, and upon any manufac- 
turing or mechanical business, subject to taxation, which is lo- 
cated or carried on in said district, not including therein the 
value of any real estate situated out of the district, and also upon 
any mercantile business carried on in said district by any per- 
son or persons who do not reside in the town in which said school 
district is situated; and neither the business so taxed nor any 
real estate in said district shall be taxed in any other district. 
GSsectuiti § 179 When any school district having within its bound- 

Rev 1^13909 arics any town almshouse and farm, shall impose any tax for 
TownpoorhoQse the purpose of buildiug or repairing its schoolhouse, said real 
fOT^hoomouM^ estate owned by said town shall not be exempt from such taxa- 
tion. 

' For exemptions see Gen Stat § 2315 

^ Real estate in any district taxable there whatever owner's residence 4 
D 376 ; II Conn 479 

Votes imposing school taxes inartificially drawn held valid 15 Conn 331 
Rate bill not invalid because it did not show on what list laid 15 Conn 447 
Personal property of deceased person's estate in settlement taxable in dis- 
trict of his domicile at death 38 Conn 443 



53 

§ i8o^ When real estate in any district is so entered in the osse<:v.i7 
Hst of the town in common with other real estate situated out Rev wi8§;Mo 
of said district that there is no distinct and separate value put Lajj^ p^,.tiy ;„ 
by the assessors upon the part lying in said district, one or more '^'strifi 
of the assessors of the town in which said property is situated , 

. ,7- ,. Assessment of 

shall, on application of said district, value said part lying in part in district 
said district and return a list of the same to the clerk of said 
district ; and notice of such valuation, and of the meeting of the 
assessors and selectmen in § i8i mentioned, shall be given by 
the district committee in the same way as a notice for district 
meetings. 

§ i8i At the end of ten days after such return of said list, gss^cuis 
the assessors and selectmen of the town shall meet in such Rev i8(i'§39ii 
place as said committee shall designate in such notice, and shall 
have the same power, in relation to such list, that the board of 
• relief has in relation to town lists ; and no deduction or abate- Board of relief 
ment shall be made on account of the indebtedness of the owner pednctions for 
of any real estate so taxed, unless both the debtor and the i'^'^ebtednesB 
creditor belong to said district ; and such list, when perfected 
by said assessors and selectmen, shall be lodged with the town 
clerk; and said valuation shall be the rule of taxation for said 
real estate by said district for the year ensuing ; and said assess- 
ors shall be paid by said district a reasonable compensation 
for their services. 

§ 182 When any real estate in any district has not been assecgu9 
put into the town list, or when any polls in any district, liable ^^^. j^gggig 
to taxation, have not been entered in said list, one or more of Listing of real 
the assessors of the town in which such omission has occurred, on'utted'from"* 
on application of said district, shall value such real estate, and '"«""iiet 
make a list of said polls, and add such property and polls to 
the list of the district. 

§ 183 When a district lays a tax on the town list last o,ssecsu:?o 
completed, and the title to any real estate has been in any way Rev 1^^3913 
changed between the first day of October next preceding and Assessment of 
the time of laying said tax, one or more of the assessors of the ch^n^d^B^ncI 
town in which such change of property has occurred, on appli- '^"^^ ''®^ 
cation of such district, shall value said real estate in the name 
of the person owning it at the time of laying said tax, and de- 
duct the same from the list of the person in whose name it 
stood on the town list. 

' Doingfs of assessors under this section upheld and construed 15 Conn 447 



54 

ossectiai § 184 The assessors in performing the duties mentioned 

Kevi8^§39i4 i" §§ 182 and 183, shall proceed in the manner prescribed for 
Mode of such assessing real cstatc in § i8o.^ 

iis«essment 

' The following sections of the General Statutes apply to district taxes 
Gen Stat § 2361 Town, society, school district, and highway taxes shall 
be laid either on the assessment list of the town last before or on that next there- 
after completed, and be payable within one year after they are laid 

§ 2382 Every collector of taxes shall, before he receives any such warrant, 
give to the community of which he is collector, a bond with surety to the accept- 
ance of the selectmen, committee, or authority signing the rate bill, for the 
faithful discharge of his duties 

§ 2383 The tax book of any collector of town, city, borough, or school 
district taxes shall be at all reasonable times open to the inspection of any tax- 
payer, and to any auditor of public accounts of such town, city, borough, or 
school district Any collector who shall, after request, refuse to exhibit his tax 
book as aforesaid, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars to such town, 
city, borough, or school district, and such penalty may be recovered by an action 
on such collector's official bond 

§ 2391 Every collector of town taxes shall, except as otherwise specially 
provided by law, publish a notice of the time and place at which he will receive 
them, by advertising in a newspaper published in the county at least once a 
week for three successive weeks next preceding the time in such notice appointed, 
and by posting on a signpost in his town at least three weeks before said time ; 
and collectors of other taxes shall appoint a time and place for receiving the 
same, and give reasonable notice thereof ; and if any tax laid by any town, city, 
borough, or school district, except as otherwise specially provided by law, shall 
remain unpaid for one month, after the same shall become due and payable, 
interest at the rate of nine per cent, shall be charged from the time when such 
tax becomes due until the same shall be paid, which shall be collectible as a part 
of said tax ; and said collectors shall keep an accurate and separate account of 
all such additions, and the time when the same may be received, and shall pay 
over the same as a part of said tax 

§ 2393 Taxes shall become due on the first day on which the collector 
thereof, according to the terms of the notice given by him, is ready to receive 
them 

§ 2407 All taxes, properly assessed, shall become a debt due from the 
person, persons, or corporation against whom they are respectively assessed, 
to the city, town, district, or community in whose favor they are assessed, and 
may be, in addition to the other remedies provided by law, recovered by any 
proper action, in the name of the community in whose favor they are assessed 
§ 2412 Warrants for the collection of taxes may be in the following form 
To A B, collector of taxes of the (here insert the name of the com- 
munity laying the tax), in the county of , greeting : By 

authority of the state of Connecticut, you are hereby commanded forth- 
with to collect of each person named in the annexed list his proportion of 
the same, as therein stated, being a tax laid by (name of community), 

on the day of , A D 19 And you are to pay the 

amount of said tax, less abatements, and less taxes the lien for which has 
been continued by certificate, to the treasurer of said (name of the com- 
munity), on or before the day of , A D 19 And if 

any person fails to pay his proportion of said tax, upon demand, you are 
to levy upon his goods and chattels, and dispose of the same as the law 
directs ; and after satisfying said tax and the lawful charges, return the 
surplus, if any, to him ; and if such goods and chattels do not come to 
your knowledge, you are to levy upon his real estate, and sell enough 
thereof to pay his tax and the cost of levy, and give to the purchaser a 
deed thereof, or take the body of said person, and him commit unto the 
keeper of the jail of said county within the prison, who is hereby com- 
manded to receive and safely keep him until he shall pay said sum, together 
with your fees, or be discharged in due course of law Dated at 

this — day of , A D 19 

A B, Justice of the Peace 



55 

Chapter XIII 

District Committees 

General Statutes, Chapter 137, page 581 



§ 185 In the absence of a special appointment the com- 



G Ssecmu 



mittee of a school district shall be the asrent ex officio of said „ .ol^o^^,., 

° Rev 1888 §2153 

■district. ■"■ " district com- 

§ 186 The committee of every district^ shall give due ex officio agent 
notice of all meetings of the district/ may call a special meet- ^ ^^^ ^ff^ 
ing thereof at any time, and shall call one on the written re- Rev 1888 §3213 
quest of one-fifth or of ten of the legal voters in the district f "tie.,'''' *"*^ 
stating the object for which a meeting is desired, to be held 
within fifteen days after such request is presented, and for any 
failure so to comply with such request they shall be fined not 
more than thirty dollars. 

They shall provide suitable schoolrooms,^ and furnish the 
same with fuel properly prepared ; 

Visit the schools, by one or more of their number, twice at 
least during each term ; 

Shall, when the scholars are not properly supplied with 
books, and their parents are too poor to furnish them, provide 
the same, the cost thereof to be included in the incidental ex- 
penses of the term f 

Shall suspend, or expel from school for the term, or for any 
part thereof, all pupils found guilty, on full hearing, of in- 
corrigibly bad conduct ; 

And shall give such information and assistance to the school 
visitors of the town as they may require. 

§ 187 The committee shall give to the secretary of the ^,^^^^,5,^,^ 
board of school visitors notice of the date of the commence- 1861 iser 
ment and close of each school term, within one week of said issgchsae §2; 
commencement, and at least four weeks before the close, re- ^^^^ 
spectively, and each committee shall, at the expiration of its ^'^"'^ 
term of office, on the fifteenth of July in each year, or within 
five days thereafter, report to the school visitors in the manner 

' Shall employ and dismiss teachers subject to direction of district ^119 

* The committeeman of a school district is a public agent 22 Conn 383 

* Must be a resident of the district § 160 

Committee must conform to vote of district, and its authority de school- 
house and teacher is contingent on failure of district to act 33 Conn 304 305 

Has power to remove teacher unless district votes otherwise 33 Conn 304 
Mandamus will lie to compel committee to conform to order of district lb 

Previous to enactment of § 188 committee might contract with teacher for a 
period beyond term of office 36 Conn 282 See § 213 

Committeeman may forcibly remove scholar 41 Conn 446 

Committee may act as a board by a majority if all are present or have 
notice 46 Conn 408 ^ §§ 150 157 203 

* When the district has a proper schoolhouse the committee cannot provide 
another schoolroom elsewhere 28 Conn 333 

'S47 



56 

and form prescribed by the state board of education. They 
shall return an enumeration of the children residing in the 
district on the first day of October in each year, in accordance 
with the provisions of this title/ and the committee of every 
district formed from parts of two or more towns, shall make 
such return to the school visitors of each of said towns, specify- 
ing the towns to which each person so enumerated belongs;* 
and shall make returns to the secretary of the board of school 
visitors of the town having jurisdiction over the district of the 
receipts, expenditures, and statistics, in accordance with blank 
forms furnished by the secretary of the state board of edu- 
cation.^ 
osgecissr. § i88 No committee of any school district elected under 

the provisions of 8 i6o, shall enter into any contract in behalf 

Limitation of ..,,.. ,. , ,, .. ., 

power to make of Said district extending beyond the expiration of the term 
for which he may have been elected, without first obtaining at 
a meeting of said district legally called for that purpose a ma- 
jority vote in favor of such proposed action.* 

Chapter XIV 
Consolidation of School Districts^ 

General Statutes, Chapter 136, page 577 

OS fee Silt § 189 Any town may abolish all the school districts, and 

RevT^^%3 P^rts of school districts,^ within its limits, and assume and 

}§^«*^I?i?A maintain control of the public schools therein, subject to the 

1889 ch 219 . . t . , , , , 1 , 

requirements and restrictions imposed by the general assembly ; 
Consolidation of and for tliis purposc every such town shall constitute one school 
district, having all the powers and duties of a school district, 
" with the exceptions hereinafter stated. 

GSsecssis § igd' Whenever a vote shall be taken in any town in 

Rev 1888 §8194 reference to abolishing school districts and assuming control of 

1889 ch 219 public schools therein, and whenever a vote shall be taken to 

1903 ch 205 re-establish school districts under § 207 of this chapter, such 

bali^t'at annual vote shall be by ballot^ at an annual town meeting, upon notice 

iiieetin<r 

1 §§ 218 221 5 § 242 

^ To be notified of estimates and appropriations §§ 231 233 

* The assumption of control by the town carries with it all necessary power 
to repair school buildings 71 Conn 740 741 « 

A town assuming control of the school property holds it in trust for educa- 
tional purposes 73 Conn 170 171 

Transfer of control from districts to town is merely a transfer from one pub- 
lic agency to another Jb 

* School districts are mere governmental instruments for the performance of 
the governmental duty of providing education 59 Conn 60 

' Town registry list is registry list for school purposes § 155 

* Official ballots will be furnished by the secretary of state Gen Stat § 1632 



57 

thereof given in the warning.^ The selectmen shall provide a 
ballot box for that purpose, marked " Consolidation of School 
Districts." Those in favor of such consolidation shall deposit 
in said box a ballot with the words " Consolidation of School 
Districts, Yes " written or printed thereon, and those opposed 
shall deposit a ballot with the words " Consolidation of School 
Districts, No " written or printed thereon, and in towns divided 
int© wards or voting districts for annual town meetings such a 
ballot box shall be provided at each of such wards or voting 
districts, and the ballots shall be examined, assorted, counted, 
and declared in the manner provided by law.^ Section 1649 ^^ 
the general statutes in so far as the same is inconsistent here- 
with shall not apply to votes taken under the provisions of this 
section.' 

§ 191 A vote to consolidate the school districts in any g,'^ sec gnu 
town into one district shall take effect on the first Monday of ^tay 18^^2208 
July next succeeding said vote, and any town assuming the jlggchiig 
ccmtrol of its public schools, as provided in this chapter, may at when vote to 
any annual meeting, not previous to the fifth annual meeting t^^es effec't 
thereafter,* vote to abandon such control and re-establish the 
several districts as they were before said action, which vote 
shall be by ballot, in the manner prescribed in § 190. 

§ 192 The selectmen of a town voting to consolidate shall as sec 2315 
determine, not later than the first Monday of May, the number ^^^ iggl^ior, 
of which the town school committee shall consist.^ Such com- ^^^^ <>'» ^^^ 
mittee shall consist of either three, six, nine, or twelve resi- N„mberand 
dents of said town. Every such town shall, at a special meet- niUtee".°fau°fi" 
ing of said town called for the purpose by the selectmen, to be c«t'<^"'' 
held on the first Monday of June following, elect by ballot a 
town school committee of the number determined upon by said 
selectmen. In all cases the number of the committee to be 
elected shall be stated in the warning of said meeting. Such 
election shall be conducted in the same manner as the annual 
elections of towns.^ 

§ 193 If the number of the committee to be elected shall u s seesaw 
be six or twelve no person shall vote for more than half that Hevissapigs 
number ; if the number be nine, no person shall vote for more 5905^^1^ 97^!^ 
than five, and the six, nine, or twelve persons, as the case may Minority repre- 

/ . ' ' r- ' J seutation on 

be, receiving the highest number of votes, shall be the town committee: 

' '^^ ° ' terms of office 

' What constitutes sufficient notice ; not necessary to give each school dis- 
trict particular notice 73 Conn 166 

The following clause will be sufficient 

To determine by ballot whether the town will abolish all the school districts 
and parts of school districts within its limits and assume and maintain 
control of the public schools 
^ Gen Stat § 1656 ' Official envelopes not required 

* Vote to abandon control, taken before the fifth annual meeting, is of no 
effect 73 Conn 172 

' See § 97 * See ch xx 



58 



1867 
Rev 1888 §2196 
School businec!!- 
to be done at 
town meetings 

a SsecSSlS 

1867 

Rev 1888 §3197 

1889 ch 47 §3 

1895 ch 67 

1895 ch 3(M 

General powers 

of town school 

committee 



school committee of said town for the respective terms as here- 
inafter provided, commencing on the first Monday of July next 
following-. The members of such committee so elected shall 
divide themselves into three equal classes, holding office re- 
spectively until the second, third, and fourth subsequent annual 
town elections of said town, at which elections and at every 
annual election, subsequent to the last thereof, two, three, or 
four members, as the case may be, shall be elected by ballot 
for a term of three years, in the manner prescribed in section 
I JO. If the number of the committee to be elected shall be 
three, the members thereof shall all be annually* elected at 
the annual town meeting, and no person shall vote fof more 
than two ; the three persons receiving the highest number of 
votes shall be such town school committee. 

§ 194 All business relating to public schools in such towns 
shall be transacted at town meetings.^ 

§ 195 The town school committee shall have the powers 
and duties of high school committees,^ district committees,* and 
boards of school visitors ; * ^ 

Shall see that good public schools of the different grades 
are maintained in the various parts of the town for not less 

* May be elected biennially under the following act if the electors shall so 
determine : 

Chapter 227, Acts of 1907, Sec. i. Any town, if the electors, thereof 
shall so determine by ballot at an annual meeting of such town or at a special 
meeting thereof duly warned and held for that purpose, may, at the annual 
town meeting next thereafter held, and biennially thereafter, elect any or all 
town officers now required by law to be elected annually, to hold office for the 
term of two years from the date of their election and until their successors 
shall be elected and qualified. 



' See note § 56 - § 66 ^ Ch xiii 
* § 1 1 1 Return of names to secretary of state 
Eligibility § 103 



§ 99 Term of office § 100 



Refusal to accept office ^ loi 
* Duties and powers 

Town school committee 
T To enforce labor law § 27 • 

2 Forward names of pupils for normal schools ^ 14 

3 Give leaving certificates § 19 

4 Examine manufacturing establishments § 28 

5 Employ teacher of music § 42 

6 If directed by town, purchase text-books § 45 

7 Grant hearing to parents in certain cases § 48 

8 Superintend high schools § 67 

9 Consent to attendance of children at non-local high school 
Consent to conveyance of high school children g 72 

ID Provide evening school instruction § 76 
Rooms, etc., for evening schools § 77 
Certify attendance to comptroller § 79 
Request relief from evening school law §81 

1 1 Organization 

Choose chairman, secretary § in 
For enumeration of duties see § in 
When chairman shall call meeting § 112 
Secretary shall keep records §113 



§68 



59 

than the length of time that would be required had no such 
conscJidation been made ; 

Manage the property of the town pertaining to schools ; 

Examine/ employ, and dismiss the teachers for the schools 
of such towns f 

Lodge all bonds, leases, notes, and other securities with the 
treasurer of said town, unless the same have been intrusted to 
others by the grantors, or the general assembly ; 

Pay the town treasurer all money which they may receive 
for the support of schools ; 

Determine the number and qualifications of the scholars to 
be admitted into each school ; 

Designate the schools which shall be attended by the chil- 
dren within their jurisdiction, and may arrange with the com- 
mittee of any adjacent town or district for the instruction 
therein of such children as may attend there more conveniently ; 

Shall fill vacancies in their own num.ber until the next 
annual town meeting when vacancies shall be filled as pro- 
vided in § 193, and the ballot shall distinctly specify the va- 
cancy to be filled ; 

Shall annually, during the first two weeks of September, 
ascertain the expenses of maintaining the schools under their 
superintendence, during the year ending the fourteenth day 
of the previous July,^ and report the same, with the amount of 
moneys received toward the payment thereof, to the annual 

12 Appoint acting visitors §115 

Superintendent § 116 

Compensation § 117 
J 3 Examine teachers and grant ceftificates §§ 118, 210 

Revoke certificates § 118 

14 Employ and dismiss teachers §§ 119, 213 

15 Members cannot be appointed teachers §§ 120, 214 

16 Select and approve books and apparatus §§ 121, 216 

17 Returns to comptroller children of certain ages § 122 

18 Text books, cannot change except by two-thirds vote § 125 

19 May require vaccination §§ 126, 282 

20 Preserve books and documents § 127 

21 May administer oath § 128 

22 May choose superintendent § 129 

Form supervision district § 130 

Petition state board of education for agent to supervise schools 

§ 133 
, 23 Custodian of registers § 215 

24 May appropriate library money § 217 

25 Make enumeration § 221 

Examine and correct returns § 221 

26 Make certificate to comptroller § 223 

27 Certify to average attendance in certain towns § 226 

28 Penalty for fraudulent returns § 245 

29 Recommend changes in schoolhouses to secure light, ventilation, or 

sanitary arrangements § 280 

'I 118 2 §119 3 §232 



6o 



G ,S»'CSSl!i 

1867 
Itev 1888 §2198 

Property of con- 
Bolidated dis- 
tricts 



(J SseciSPAi 

1887 
RcT 1888 §319<J 

'J'ime for payino 
tax extended 



o s sec tnei 

1887 
Rer 1888 §2200 

Proceedings in 
case of joint dis 

tricts 



town meeting, and shall, at the same time, make a full report 
of their doings, and the condition of the schools under their 
superintendence, and of all important matters concerning the 
same ; 

And shall perform all lawful acts which may be required 
of them by the town or which may be necessary to carry into 
effect the provisions of this title.^ 

§ 196 Such towns shall assume the property and be re- 
sponsible for the debts of the districts within their respective 
limits.^ Such property shall be appjaised and the amount of the 
debts estimated under the direction of the town, and the ap- 
praised value of such property may be raised by a tax to be 
laid by the town on its grand list next completed ; and if such 
tax is raised, the taxpayers in each of the districts previously 
existing shall be paid or credited on the rate bill with their 
respective proportions of any excess of the property of such 
district over and above its liabilities, as ascertained by the town ; 
or the difierence in the value of the property of the several dis- 
tricts may be adjusted in any other manner agreed upon by the 
parties in interest. Permanent funds vested in any town for 
school purposes shall remain in charge of the school fund 
treasurer of the town. 

§ 197 Whenever any town shall have assumed control of 
and appraised the school property as provided in § 196, the 
town may, by vote in town meeting, extend the time in which 
the taxpayers of any district or districts shall be required to 
pay the excess of assessment over the appraised value of the 
property in such district for a period not exceeding five years, 
and all the property belonging to the school districts over 
which any town has assumed or shall assume control shall be 
vested in such town to be held for school purposes so long as so 
required, and may be sold and deeded by said town when not 
required for school purposes. 

§ 198 Whenever any town has voted, or shall vote, to as- 
sume control of all the schools, as provided in this chapter, in 
case there is a joint district the selectmen of the towns out of 
which such joint district is formed shall meet within ten days 
after receiving a written request for such meeting signed by the 
first selectman of either of said towns, and appraise the sthool- 
house and other school property owned and used by said joint 
district and determine what proportion is owned by the inhabi- 
tants of the towns residing in said district. If the several 
boards of selectmen shall not agree, the same shall be deter- 

' Powers conferred and duties imposed bv this section construed 65 Conn 
183 'See §143 



6i 



Chapter 93 Public Acts of 1907 

An Act amending an Act concerning Appraisal of School Property of 
Consolidated Districts 

This act amends Section 196 on opposite page 

Chapter 14 of the pubHc acts of 1907 is hereby amended to 
read as follows : Whenever any town has consolidated or 
shall, consolidate the school districts within such town under 
the provisions of section 2212 of the general statutes and has 
voted or shall vote to appraise the property of said districts, 
the first selectman, one member of the town school committee 
elected as provided by section 2215 of the general statutes as 
amended by chapter 97 of the public acts of 1905, to be ap- 
pointed by said committee, and one member of the board of 
assessors, to be appointed by said board of assessors, shall 
constitute a committee to make the appraisal provided for by 
section 2219 of the general statutes. 



school committee, shall be paid by the town treasurer on orders p^^^J^^^'^ 
drawn by the town school committee, except so far as they scuooi expeii.sc« 
may be met by the income from local school funds. Such 
orders may be signed by such persons on behalf of the school 
committee as the committee by by-law or special vote, certified 
by the secretary to the town treasurer, may provide ; and in the 
absence of such by-law or special direction by the secretary. 

8 202 When'anv part of a school district lying in two or os^ecss^r. 
more towns shall be abolished or consolidated by either, its Revises §2304 
selectmen shall give immediate notice thereof to the selectmen Notice when 
-of the other town or towns, which shall thereafter provide for jTaboiishld"' 
the schooling of the children belonging thereto, who formerly 
belonged to said school district. 

§ 203 Any school district which has been, or shall be, ^^ '"^ ''^^l^*^ 
abolished by any town, may settle and close up its affairs ; and Kev lass §2205 
its district committee last elected, or the selectmen of said town, ^^fg™^* "^ 
may call special meetings of the district. t*ic"'^''' '^'*' 

'§§55 97 ^Chxvi 



62 



O Stec tin: 

1879 
Rev 1888 §2206 

Payment of 
debts of district 



O S sec 2t2S 

1S79 
Rev 1888 §2307 
Collection of 
taxes of district 
GS gee 2229 
1867 1877 
Rev 1888 §2209 

Towns reiiii- 
tonrsed for iiu- 
provenieiits 



G S tec SiSO 

1877 
Rev 1888 §2210 
Vote to re-est!ib- 
lish 



Siee 22.11 

1877 
Rev 1888 §22U 

Tovra echool 
committee to be- 
come school vis- 
itors 



§ 204 If any such district has, or shall, become liable, by 
judgment or otherwise, to pay any claims or demands upon it, 
or if expenses and liabilities have been or shall be incurred by it 
in settling up its affairs, after consolidation, the selectmen of 
said town, upon the request of said district, shall pay the same 
and charge the amount to the district, and said amount shall 
be raised by the selectmen adding the same to the tax to be 
laid by the said town on its grand list next completed of the 
taxable property of such district. 

§ 205 Said selectmen shall collect all taxes, claims, and 
demands in favor of such district, in the name of the district, 
and credit the same to the district, less expenses of collection. 

§ 206 When any town has voted to re-establish its school 
districts as provided in § 191, each of the districts shall pay the 
town for all improvements which the town has made on the 
schoolhouse, its furniture, and appurtenances within the dis- 
trict. The amounts to be thus paid shall be determined by the 
selectmen and the town school committee. When such pay- 
ments are made the town shall restore or maj<e good to each 
of the districts the school property and local funds formerly 
belonging to the district. If any district shall refuse or neglect 
to make the payment required by this section till the expiration 
of six months after the passage of the vote of the town to re- 
establish the districts, the selectmen may cause a tax sufficient 
to make said payment, including the cost of laying and collect- 
ing such tax, to be laid on the district in the manner provided 
by law for school district taxes except that the selectmen shall 
perform the duties required of district committees therein, and 
to be collected and paid to the town. 

§ 207 A vote to re-establish the school districts 'shall not 
take effect further than to authorize the district to hold meet- 
ings, lay and collect taxes, and appoint officers for these pur- 
poseSj till all the settlements and payments required by § 206 
have been made ; and unless such payments and settlements are 
made within one year after the passage of said vote said rote 
shall be null and void. 

§ 208 When any town in which the school districts have 
been consolidated has abandoned or shall abandon such system, 
the persons elected school committee of such consolidated dis- 
tricts at the election next preceding such abandonment shall be 
and remain the members of the board of school visitors of such 
town, with all the powers and duties of school visitors, during 
the term for which they were or may be respectively elected, in 
the same manner as if elected school visitors of such town. 



63 

§ 209 Towns shall have the same powers, and be subject &ssecess:i 
to the same regulations, as school districts, in taking land for Revi^§22i2 
schoolhouses, outbuildings, and convenient accommodations for ^^^ '^^ ^ 
schools 1 '^1^'°,^ '^""^ '^°"" 

sv,ijvjui:>. school purposes 

Chapter XV 
Teachers' 

General Statutes, Chapter 140, page 584 

§ 210 School visitors, town school committees, or boards QSsecni^ 
of education shall, as a board, or by a committee by them ap- ^^r^v^ss^^ 
pointed, examine^ all persons desiring to teach in the public ^Ifg^JgP 
school ; and give to those with whose moral character and ^^i^ggs^^^f'* 
ability they are satisfied, if found qualified to teach reading, ^'^^ ^h si §5 
writing, arithmetic, and grammar, the rudiments of geography 
and history, and the rudiments of drawing if required,* a cer- Examination of 

-' ' S3 1 ' teachers; certifi- 

tificate authorizing the holder to teach in any public school in cates 
the town or district so long as desired, without further examina- 
tion unless specially ordered; such certificate may limit the au- 
thority to teach to a specified time or in a specified school.^ No 

1 §§ 158-161 

' I May be employed by — a school visitors § 40 

b board of education § 60 

c district committees § 137 

d town committees § 195 

e high school committees § 66 

f teacher of music § 42 

2 May be examined by — a state board of education § 4 

b school visitors §^210 

c boards of education § 62 

d town committee § 195 

3 Make eyesight tests § 5 

4 Shall be paid once a month unless district vote otherwise § 235 

5 The reasonableness of the punishment administered by a school teacher 
to a pupil is purely a question of fact 53 Conn 481 

6 A school teacher has a right to require obedience to reasonable rules and 
a proper submission to his authority, and to inflict punishment for disobedi- 
ence lb 

In the absence of rules established by the school board or other proper 
authority, the teacher has a right to make all necessary and proper rules for the 
regulation of the school lb 

In inflicting corporal punishment the teacher must be governed, as to the 
mode and severity of it, by the nature of the offense, and by the age, size, and 
physical condition of the pupil Where a boy has been habitually refractory 
and disobedient, the teacher, in punishing him for a particular offense, may 
take into consideration his habitual disobedience lb 

And it is not necessary that he should inform the pupil at the time that he 
is punishing him for his past as well as present misconduct Jb 

* § § 17 38 iiS "^ ^ 

* General certificate of teacher is sufficient in any district of the town where 
issued 36 Conn 282 

A general certificate of examination and approbation not limited to any 
particular district or term of school makes the holder qualified to teach in any 



64 



1884 
Rev 1888 §2233 
1895 ch 135 

State board of 
education may 
grant cerfilicate 



a b' sec S'^/,7 
1856 
Rev 1888 
§§3221 2222 
1895 ch 135 

Teacher must 
liave a certifi- 
cate 



O ii sec 2S1US 

1856 1857 186; 

Rev 1888 

§§2132 2130 

'2135 2155 

2197 2213 

2216 

1895 ch 131 



certificate to teach in grades above the third in graded schools 
nor in classes corresponding to such grades in ungraded schools 
shall be granted to any person who has not passed a satisfactory 
examination in hygiene, including the effects of alcohol and 
narcotics on health and character.^ If a person is examined 
and found qualified to teach branches other than those required 
in all cases, such branches shall be named in his certificate. 
Said certificate shall be signed by a majority of the board or 
committee or Jby all the members of the committee appointed 
to examine. They may revoke the certificates of such teachers 
as shall at any time be found incompetent to teach or to managfe 
a school, or fail to conform to their requirements.^ 

§ 211 The state board of education may, upon public 
examination in such branches and upon such terms as it may 
prescribe, grant a certificate of qualification to teach in any 
public school in the state, and may revoke the same. The cer- 
tificate of qualification issued under this section shall be ac- 
cepted by boards of school visitors, boards of education, and 
town school committees in lieu of any other examination. 

§ 212 No teacher shall be employed in any school receiv- 
ing any portion of its support from the public money until he 
has received a certificate of approbation in accordance with the 
provisions of this chapter ; nor shall any teacher be entitled to 
any wages, so far as the same are paid out of any public 
money appropriated to schools,^ unless he can produce such 
certificate, dated previous to the opening of his school. 

§ 213 Town school committees, boards of education, and 
high school and district committees unless otherwise directed 
by the district or ordered by the town, shall employ and dismiss 
• the teachers for the schools of their respective towns or dis- 
tricts ■* but no district committee shall employ a teacher for a 

district of the town unless it is revoked or a re-examination required 36 Conn 
282 

Tlie provision as to new certificate, if required by school visitors, applies 
only to certificates limited as to time or qualification 36 Conn 282 

A school district contracting with a teacher who has an old certificate from 
the board of school visitors, without requiring a new one, cannot afterwards 
repudiate the contract because he should have had a new one /l> 

' §§ 43 44 r • . 

' Teacher may be discharged by the district ; and in absence of action by 
the district, may be discharged by the committee 33 Conn 304 

If improperly discharged by the committee the district may compel re- 
instatement 33 Conn 305 306 

Is not a public officer in ordinary sense of the word ; his wages are subject 
to attachment 53 Conn 509 Status of teacher, as to district /d ^ Ch xvii 

* Teachers may be discharged by the district, or in the absence of any 
action by the district, by the district committee, if they think it for the interest 
of the school If improperly discharged against the orders of the district, they 
will be reinstated bv a writ of mandamus 33 Conn 304-306 



65 

longer period of time than that for which he may' have been 
elected without first obtaining, at a meeting of said district 
legally called for that purpose, a majority vote in favor of such 
proposed action.^ Any town, unless otherwise provided, may pioy teachers 
direct the school visitors to employ the teachers for. all public school visitors 
schools of the town for such terms of the schools as it may ^^"^^ 
specify. 

§ 214 No person elected to the office of school visitor or ossecimud 
town school committee shall be employed as teacher in the ^ '°'^ 

town where he is school visitor or member of the town school be^a schocfi visi- 
committee. If any school visitor or member of the town school ^^"^ 
committee shall be employed, contrary to the provisions of this 
section the office of school visitor or town school committee 
to which he was elected shall become vacant. 

§ 215 The teacher of every public school shall correctly '^ ^ ^'■'^ ^^^'^ 
keep the school register provided by the state, in the manner Rev I888 §2323 
and form required by the state board of education,^ and at the 
end of each school term, and before said teacher shall leave Teacher to keep 
such school, shall certify in writing to the correctness of the '•'f^'®*®'' 
same, and immediately deliver it to the secretary of the board 
of school visitors,^ town school committee, or board of educa- 
tion having jurisdiction over such school; and no teacher shall 
receive any pay except for such time as the register has been 
legally kept and certified. 

Chapter XVI 
School Libraries and Philosophical Apparatus 

General Statutes, Chapter 139, page 5S3 

§ 216 The treasurer of the state, upon the order of the ossec^m^ 
secretary of the state board of education,* shall pay ten dollars \m \m lasj; 
to every school district, and to every town maintaining a high gpais^^j^i'.i 
school, which shall raise by tax or otherwise a like sum for the state grant 
same purpose, to establish within such district, or for the use 
of such high school, a school library composed of books of 
reference, and other books to be used in connection with school 
work, and to procure maps, globes, or any proper philosophical 
and chemical apparatus ; and the further sum of five dollars 
annually,^ upon a like order, to every such district or town 
which has raised a like sum for the current year for maintain- 
ing or replenishing such library or apparatus. 

^ Previous to enactment of § 188 a teacher might be employed by the com- 
mittee for a period extending beyond committee's term of office 36 Conn 282 

'' The library year coincides with the calendar year 



66 



School visitors 



G Ssec 12US 
1889 ch 17 



Purchase of 
books and 
apparatus 



If the number of scholars in actual attendance^ in any such 
district or high school exceeds one hundred the treasurer shall 
pay ten dollars in the first instance, and five dollars annually 
thereafter, for every one hundred or fractional part of a hun- 
dred scholars in excess of the first hundred. 

The expense incurred by any district in accordance with 
the provisions of this section may be reckoned among its inci- 
dental expenses, to be defrayed in the manner provided in this 
title for such incidental expenses. 

The selection of all books and apparatus shall be made or 
approved by the board of school visitors, or the town school 
committee, which shall also prescribe the rules for their man- 
agement, use, and safe-keeping.' 

§ 217 The town school committee or the joint board of 
selectmen and school visitors in each town may appropriate 
money for the purchase of books and apparatus to be used in 
the public schools of the town. The money thus appropriated 
shall be expended by a committee on libraries and apparatus, 
annually appointed by the town school committee or school 
visitors, to whom the treasurer of the town shall pay such 
money upon the written order of such committee. 

The treasurer of the state upon, the order of the secretary of 
the state board of education shall annually pay said committee 
five dollars for every public school within said town, and, if the 
number of scholars in any public school within the town ex- 
ceeds one hundred, the treasurer shall annually pay to said 
committee five dollars for every one hundred scholars and 
fractional part of one hundred scholars in actual attendance 
at such school ; but no greater amount shall be paid to such 
committee by the state than is paid during the same year by the 
town for the same purpose ; and provided that any amount 
paid by the state under § 216 to any district or for any high 
school within said town shall be deducted from the amount 
payable under this section. 

The books and apparatus so purchased shall remain the 
property of the town and under the care and control of said 
committee. 



' Actual attendance means number of different scholars registered in school 
year 

° Teachers may ask advice and assistance of the Connecticut public library 
committee § 263 



Chaptek XVII 
Support of Public Schools^ 

General Statutes, Chapter 141, page 586 

§ 218 The committee of each school district or, if they ^^38 i8«^i878 
fail or are unable to do so, the clerk, shall annually in October fgl^l^flllf* 
ascertain the name and as^e of every person over four and i897 ch 50 
under sixteen years of age who shall belong to such district, 
on the first Monday of said month, together with the names 
of the parents or guardians of such persons and the place 
where such persons are attending school in said month of 
October. If any such persons are not attending school, then 
the person making the enumeration shall ascertain the reason ^gQ.;. ^^^ 3^ g^ 
for such nonattendance and, if such persons are employed lfiil|?|n*hi°° °^ 
at labor, the names of their employers or of the establish- districts 
nients where they are employed. Returns shall be made to 
the school visitors of the town to which such district belongs, 
on or before the twentieth of October ; children temporarily 
residing in one district but having parents or guardians resid- 
ing in another shall be enumerated only as belonging to the 
latter district. For making such enumeration the committee 
or clerk of the district shall receive one dollar, and in addition 
thereto three cents for each child enumerated in excess of fifty, 
and the cost of said enumeration shall be paid from the ainount 
appropriated by the town for the support of schools in said 
district. If the return of enumeration is not made to the board 
of school visitors on or before said twentieth of October, one of 
the school visitors or a person duly appointed b}^ the board of 

' Gen Stat § 61 Whenever any specific appropriation of money may have 
been made by the general assembly, by the representatives and senators of any 
county, or by any community or corporation named in the preceding section, every 
agent, commissioner, or executive officer of the state, or of any county, city, 
borough, town, or school district, who shall wilfully authorize or contract for 
the expenditure of any money, or the creation of any debt for any purpose in 
excess of the amount specifically appropriated for such purpose by the general 
assembly, the county representatives and senators, or the community or corpora- 
tion of which he is agent, commissioner, or executive officer, unless such expen- 
diture shall be made or debt contracted for the necessary repair of roads or 
bridges, or the necessary support of schools or paupers, in cases arising after the 
proper appropriation has been exhausted, shall be fined not exceeding one 
thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both 

Gpn Stat § 60 The general assembly, in behalf of the state ; the repre- 
sentatives of the towns and the senators resident in the several counties, in 
behalf of their respective counties ; every city, by its common council when so 
authorized by its charter, or by its freemen in legal meeting assembled ; and 
every town, borough, or school district, by legal meeting of its qualified voters, 
may make appropriations of specific sums of money for any purpose authorized 
by law, and by the warnings of the meetings at which the appropriations are 
made 

As to what constitutes an appropriation see 58 Conn 486 



68 



O 3 see SSoS 

1849 

Rev 1888 §2225 

1889 ch 26 §2 

1895 cli 222 

1897 ch 50 

Return of 
enaraeration 



G S sec S20h 

1849 1887 

Rev 1888 §3227 

1889 ch 26 

§§2 3 
1897 ch 50 



Correction 

returns 

certificate 



of 



G 8 see StS55 
Rev 1875 p 139 
Rev 1888 
§§2197 2224 
1889 ch 26 
1897 ch 50 
1901 ch 82 
190S ch 64 



school visitors shall make a complete enumeration before the 
first of November next following and return it to said school 
visitors, and shall receive therefor a sum not to exceed five cents 
for each child so enumerated. 

§ 219 Such return shall be signed and sworn to by the 
person making it, substantially in the following form : 

I hereby certify that I have carefully enumerated, according 
to law, all persons between the ages of four and sixteen years, 

within the school district, and find that on the first 

Monday of October, A.D. 19 — , there were of such persons, re- 
siding in and belonging to said district, the number of 



On this 



day of ■ 



A. B. 
-, A, D. 19—, per- 
sonally appeared the above-named A. B. and made oath to the 
truth of the above return by him subscribed before me. 

, Justice of the Peace. 

§ 220 The school visitors of the town shall examine and 
correct the returns made to them, so that no person shall be 
enumerated twice in different districts or be impi'operly re- 
turned, and lodge them as corrected with the town treasurer. 
They shall also transmit to the comptroller,^ on or before the 
fifth day of December, annually, a certificate in which the 
number of persons shall be inserted in words at full length, 
which shall be sworn to, substantially, according to the follow- 
ing form : 

We, the school visitors of the town of , certify 

that from the returns made to us under oath, as by law pro- 
vided, we find that on the first Monday of October, A.D. 19 — , 
there were residing within the school districts belonging to said 

town the number of persons between four and sixteen 

years of age; and from the best information we can obtain, we 
believe that said number is correct. 



on this 



day of ■ 



School Visitors. 
, A.D. 19—, per- 
sonally appeared the above-named school visitors, and made oath 
to the truth of the above certificate by them subscribed before 
me. C. D. 

Justice of the Peace. 
§ 221 Town school committees shall annually appoint one 
or more persons who shall, in October of each year, ascertain 
the name and age of every person over four and under sixteen 
years of age who shall belong to such town on the first Mon- 
day of said month and the place where such persons are at- 
tending school in said month of October. If any such per- 
sons are not attending school, then the person making the 
enumeration shall ascertain the reason for such nonattendance 
and, if such persons are employed at labor, the names of their 
employers or of the establishments where they are employed. 



§ 122 



69 

Returns shall be made to the town school committee on or be- 
fore the twentieth of October. Said person so appointed shall 
receive a sum not exceeding five cents for each child so enu- Eriumerition in 
merated. Such return shall be signed by the person making it ^'/"t^°cts***"^ 
and sworn to substantially according to the form prescribed in 
section 219. The town school committee shall examine and 
correct the returns made to it so that no person shall be enu- 
merated twice or be improperly returned, and lodge them, as 
corrected, with the town treasurer, and shall also transmit to 
the comptroller, on or before the fifth of December annually, 
a certificate in which the number of persons shall be inserted 
in words at full length, which shall be sw^orn to substantially 
according to the form prescribed in section 220. 

§ 222 Every person having control of a child between GSsecssse 
four and sixteen years of age, who -shall wilfully refuse to give Rev isss §2326 
the person making the enumeration required by this chapter the Penalty for 
name and age of such child, and such information concerning fige^of^iiid"^^^ 
the school attendance of such child as said chapter requires, 
shall be fined three dollars. 

§ 223 The comptroller shall annually, as soon after the (fs sec 2257 
twenty-eighth of February as may be, draw orders for the '^'^'isti w^i'^ 
support of the common schools at the rate of two dollars and 
twenty-five cents for each child between the ages of four and iiey isss §3S28 
sixteen years on the enumeration last made and perfected, i897cii5§a 
which orders shall be payable from the civil list, funds of the Grant by state 
state, and be divided and distributed among the several towns 
in proportion to the number of persons in each between the ages 
of four and sixteen years, as ascertained from said returns ; 
and he shall transmit the amount distributed to each town 
to its treasurer, on the application of its school visitors, or its 
town school committee ; but no such money shall be trans- 
mitted to any town until the comptroller shall have received 
from its school visitors or committee a certificate, signed by 
them or their chairman and secretary, and substantially in the 
following form : 

We, the school visitors (or town school committee) of the 

toAvn of , certify that the schools in said town have 

been kept for the period required by law during the year ending 
the fourteenth day of July last, by teachers duly examined and 
approved, and have been visited according to law; and that all 
moneys drawn from the public treasury by said town for said 
year, appropriated to schooling, have been faithfully applied 
and expended in paying for teachers' wages, and for no other 
purpose whatever. 

Dated at , this day of , A. 

D. 19—. 

i School Visitors 
( or Town School 
Committee ) . 
To the comptroller. 



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1903 ch 102 %\ 
Support of 



Aveinse 
attendance 

Grant to 
certain towns 

1907 ch 216 ^1 



1903 c:h 102 §2 

Condition; four 
mills tax 



1903 ch 102 m 
Method of 
payment by 
the state 



O Ssec SS61 

1856 
Rev 1888 §3230 



Comptroller 
may make 
deduction from 
school moneys 



§ 224 Every town having a valuation of less than one 
million dollars may annually receive from the treasurer of 
the state upon the order of the comptroller a sum which 
will enable the town to annually expend for the support of 
public schools twenty-five dollars for each child in average 
attendance, as determined by the attested school registers for 
the school year ending July fourteenth ; provided, that pay- 
ments of principal or interest on indebtedness, the expense of 
new buildings, sites, and permanent improvements shall not 
be included in obtaining the cost of each scholar in average 
attendance, and, provided, that the said state grant shall be 
expended only for teachers' wages. 

§ 225 The comptroller shall not draw an order in favor 
of a town under the provisions of §224 unless the town, in 
the year for which said average attendance grant is made, shall 
have laid and collected a' tax of not less than four mills on its 
grand list for the support of schools and shall have expended 
the same. 

§ 226 The secretary of the board of school visitors or 
town school committee of every town entitled to a grant under 
the provisions of § 224, shall on or before the fourteenth day 
of July, 1904, and annually thereafter, certify under oath to the 
state board of education upon blanks to be furnished by said 
board, the average attendance in each school in said town, 
and shall also certify that the schools of the town have been 
kept for the period required by law during the year ending 
the fourteenth day of July, by teachers legally examined and 
found qualified under the provisions of section 210 or section 
211 and not disapproved by the state board of education and 
that the amount raised by tax as provided by § 225 has been 
expended for the support of public schools, and that the state 
grant authorized by § 224 has been expended for teachers' 
wages and for no other purpose. The comptroller shall, on 
application of said board, draw an order on the treasurer in 
favor of the town for the amount provided in § 224. Nothing 
in this section shall be construed to limit the duties and powers 
of school officers as prescribed in section 210. 

§ 227 When the school in any school district shall not be 
kept according to law,^ the school visitors of the town, to which 
such district belongs, shall, in their certificate or certificates to 
the comptroller for the year following, state such fact, and 
also the number of children enumerated in such district ; and 
when application is made for the school moneys payable to 

■ ^ 123 A district is not entitled to any state or town money unless the 
schoolhouse and outbuildings are satisfactory to the school visitors § 169 



71 

such town for said year, he shall deduct from the whole number 
of children enumerated in such town the number contained in 
such district; and shall draw an order for such part only of 
the moneys that would otherwise go to said town, as is pro- 
portioned to the number of children in the remaining districts 
therein. 

§ 228 If any money appropriated to the use of schools Cf^Siecszes 
shall be applied by a town or school district to any other pur- Revises §2231 
pose, such town or school district shall forfeit the amount Misapplication 
thereof to the state ; and the comptroller shall sue for the money 
same in behalf of the state, to be applied, when recovered, to 
the use of schools. 

§ 229 The income of the town deposit fund,^ belonging to gs sec uses 
any town, and of any other town fund which is or shall be Rev ]8^*§3232 
established or appropriated for the support of public schools income of town 
in any town, shall be paid annually into the town treasury, deposit fund 
for the support of public schools therein. 

§ 230 The income of any fund that is or shall be estab- ossecsseu 
lished or appropriated for the support of public schools in any Rev isss §3233 
school district or school society existing in any town, shall be school society 
paid annually into the treasury of such district or society, for fund * 
the support of public schools therein ; but if such district or 
society shall at any time cease to exist, then the principal of 
said fund shall be paid over to the school fund treasurer of 
the town,2 the income thereof to be applied for the support of 
public schools therein, in the manner prescribed in § 199. 

S 231 The school visitors and selectmen in each town os sec 2^.65 

1886 1887 

which has not voted to consolidate its school districts shall Revises §2234 
meet as a joint board on the third Tuesday of June in each 
year, and prepare a statement showing the estimated cost of j^gg^j^ ^ • j^j. 
each and all the public schools in their town, for the next sue- board of school 
ceeding school year, and shall immediately thereafter notify selectmen 
the committees of the respective school districts of the several 
amounts so fixed. GSsecssee 

§ 232 The school year shall commence on the fifteenth Rev isss §2235 
day of July, and end on the fourteenth day of July. school year 

§ 233 The school visitors and selectmen in each town ^gggcgser 
which has not voted to consolidate its districts shall, as a joint i869iS70 
board, present at the annual town meeting a written or printed 
statement of the total cost of each and all of the public schools in Estimates; ex- 
such town for the school year next preceding, and an esti- fngestimat*e*f 
mate of the cost of such schools for the current school year. 

' Ch xviii ^ §§ 55 97 



72 



O 8 sec sees 

1872 
Rev 1888 §2146 

Record 

G 8 sec SS69 

1870 1872 1885 

1886 

Rev 1888 §2237 

1895 ch 75 

Time of 
payment to 
dietricta 



O SsecSSlO 

1885 
Rev 1888 §2238 
Payment of 
leather 



Said board shall also on or before the fifteenth of October in 
each year fix the several amounts which in their judgment 
will be sufficient to pay the wages of teachers, including board, 
and the incidental expenses of maintaining the schools in the 
various districts within the jurisdiction of such town, for the 
period during the current year, that schools are required by 
law, or by vote of the town, to be maintained ; shall notify the 
respective districts of the several amounts so fixed ; and if 
any district, by contributing the teachers' board, or any of the 
incidental expenses of the school, be enabled to continue its 
school year beyond the time required by law, said district shall, 
subject to the approval of the board of school visitors, be en- 
titled to the whole amount so fixed. 

§ 234 The secretary of the board of school visitors shall 
keep, in a book provided by the town, a record of all the de- 
cisions of the joint board of school visitors and selectmen. 

§ 235 Whenever a school district shall, at its annual 
school meeting, neglect to fix the time or period for the pay- 
ment of its teachers, they shall be paid at the end of each 
school month, and at the close of every such month or period 
for the payment of teachers and on the certificate of the school 
visitors or acting visitor or visitors that the schools of the 
district for such month or period have been kept in all re- 
spects according to law the selectmen shall draw an order 
on the town treasurer in favor of such district for a sum of 
money sufficient, and no more than sufficient, to pay the ex- 
penses incurred by such district for said month or period for 
the wages of teachers, including board, and for fuel and in- 
cidental -expenses, if the expenses incurred by the district for 
the above-named purposes, during the school year, do not ex- 
ceed the amount fixed upon for such district as provided in 
this chapter. If such expenses exceed said amount, the joint 
board of school visitors and selectmen shall meet, on or before 
the fourteenth of July in each year, and decide whether or not 
the expenditure in excess of the amount fixed upon was 
necessary to maintain the school or schools of the district fof 
the time required by law. If said board shall decide that such 
additional expense was necessary, the selectmen shall draw 
an order on the town treasurer for an amount sufficient to 
pay the same; but if said joint board shall decide that such 
additional expense was not necessary the district shall pay it, 
unless the town otherwise order. 

§ 236 Whenever a district shall vote to pay its teacher 
or teachers oftener than once each term, and for fixed periods 
of not less than four weeks each, or when, as provided in 



73 

§ 235, the salary of teachers shall be payable monthly, it shall 
be the duty of the school visitors, or acting school visitor or 
visitors, at the close of each of the aforesaid periods of school 
or school months, to give to the selectmen a certificate stating 
whether or not the schools of the district have been kept in all 
respects according to law during such period. 

§ 237 No town which includes a city within its limits (tsueessii 
shall be required to expend for school purposes in any year a Revie 



greater sum than would be raised by a tax of one mill on its Tax in city 

1 1- , -J- .J •, • • J • i u 1 school districts 

grand list, if said city is organized into one or more school 
districts by which a sum has been appropriated for the support 
of public schools during the year in which such tax would 
be payable, sufficient, with the income derived from other 
sources, to pay the wages of teachers, the cost of fuel, and the 
incidental expenses .of the public schools of said district or 
districts for at least thirty-six weeks of said year ; provided, 
that said sum shall be paid, without abatement, on or before 
the first of March next following the time at which the town 
tax shall have become due, to the several school districts in 
the town, in proportion to the number of children in each, at 
the last preceding enumeration, between the ages of four and 
sixteen years. 

§ 238 Every town which shall neglect or refuse to pro- ctSseasTJ 
vide for the support of its schools shall forfeit to the state Rev i888°§2340 
a sum equal to the amount which it is required to raise and Neglect to sup- 

• , port school 

appropriate. 

§ 239 When the number of scholars in any district for ossecs27s 
any term of school shall be so small that in the judgment of RevT^8^24i 
the school visitors the maintenance of a separate school in ^^gas'ch^fle 
said district for such term is inexpedient, said board of school 
visitors may unite the school of such district with the school 
of an adjoining district or districts, and when the school of 
any district shall be thus united with the school of another Discontinuance 
district or districts it shall be as full a compliance with the tranTportation*' 
law as if said district had maintained a separate school for ^'^ *^'"'''''«" 
the time required by law. Whenever any school shall be dis- 
continued, under the provisions of this section the school 
visitors may provide transportation for children to and from 
school, and the expenses of such transportation, when ap- 
proved by the board of school visitors, shall be paid by the 
town treasurer, upon the order of the selectmen. 

§ 240 If a district maintains a school of a higher order QS sec S27U 
than is required by law, and thereby incurs increased expense Rev i888*§2242 
for its school ; or if any district shall continue its school for a Extra expenees 
longer time than is provided for at the expense of the town, S^ctf ^^ 



74 



G S see S175 

1870 
Rev 1888 §2243 
1889 ch 26 §2 
1889 ch 47 §3 
District to 
receive no 
money unless 
report is made 
District 
committee 

G Ssec SS7C 
1870 1871 1876 
Rev 1888 §2244 
1889 ch 26 §2 
1889 ch 47 §§2 3 

1889 ch 133 



Apportionrrvent 
to joint 
districte 



G S se<; 2277 
Rev 1875 p 147 
Rev 1888 §2244 
1889 ch 133 

Expenses of 
joint districts 



according to § 38, or if any district shall expend for teachers' 
wages or other purposes, a sum which the school visitors and 
selectmen deem unnecessary and extravagant ; the cost of such 
school, above the sum received by such district from the town, 
shall be paid by a tax laid by said district. Nothing, however, 
in this title shall be construed as forbidding the payment of 
the additional expenses of continuing a school, longer than 
the time required by law, by voluntary contribution or by 
tuition charges. 

§ 241 No district shall be entitled to receive any money 
from the state or town in any year, unless the district com- 
mittee shall have made, on or before the fifteenth of July pre- 
ceding, or within five davs thereafter, the report required by 
§ 187. 

§ 242 The amount of the annual state appropriation, ap- 
{)ortioned to any school district formed from parts of two or 
more towns, shall be paid into the treasury of the town having 
jurisdiction over such district under the provisions of § 147; 
and the expenses of the school in such district shall be paid by 
said town, in the same manner and on the same conditions as if 
said district lay wholly within it ; but during September, in 
each year, the school visitors of said town shall ascertain the 
cost of maintaining said school for the year ending on the 
fourteenth of the preceding July ; not including, however, in 
such ascertainment, the amount received by said district from 
any fund that is or shall be established or granted for the 
support of public schools in said district ; and, having deducted 
from this amount the sums received by the town for such dis- 
trict during said year from the state appropriation, shall ap- 
portion the remainder of the cost of such school among the 
towns in which such district lies, in proportion to the number 
of persons between the ages of four and sixteen years, as as- 
certained by the enumeration made in the October preceding, 
and shall, before the first Monday in October, present a copy 
of said apportionment to the selectmen of each of said towns ; 
and the selectmen of the town or towns not having jurisdiction 
over said district shall cause the sums, thus apportioned to 
their respective towns, to be paid to the town having jurisdic- 
tion over said district.'^ 

§ 243 The selectmen of any town schooling children re- 
siding in another town and in a district in which no school is 
maintained may ascertain the expense of schooling said chil- 
dren and present a bill of said expense to the selectmen of the 
town in which said children reside. If the town schooling 
children shall be indebted to the town in which the children 



1 §§ 123 147 



75 

reside, under the provisions of § 242, the expense ascertained 
as provided in this section shall be deducted from the amount 
of said indebtedness, and only the remainder shall be due to 
the town in which said children reside. 

S 244 In all cases when a school in any district has been ^s sec sirs 

i • • 1849 1856 

or shall be kept during a portion of the school year, but not Revises §2345 
accordinsr to law, or when for any other cause there has been Forfeitures may 

be remitted. 

or shall be a forfeiture of moneys accruing from the school 
fund or annual state appropriation that would otherwise have 
been paid to any town or school district, the secretary of the 
state board of education shall, on application from such town 
or school district, examine into the facts of the case, and de- 
cide, according to equity, on the right of the applicants to 
receive the money so forfeited ; and if he decides in favor of 
such right, and so certifies to the comptroller, the same shall 
be paid as if no forfeiture had occurred. 

§ 245 Every school visitor or member of a town school GSseces79 
committee who shall fraudulently make or join in making any Rev i888^§2246 
false certificate, by reason of which money shall be drawn from Fraudnient 
the treasury of the state, shall be fined not more than sixty ^^'^^ ^^^ 
dollars. 



Chapter XVIII 
Town Deposit Fund 

General StaUttes, Chapter 121, page 506 

§ 246 The money received from the United States in (^Ssecwn 
pursuance of the act of congress approved June 23, 1836, shall Revi888§i86 
remain on deposit with the several towns on the terms here- Town deposit 
inafter specified. 

§ 247 When any new town shall be constituted, such Gs sec 192s 
money shall be divided between it and the towns of which it Revi888§i87 
was formed, agreeably to the last census of the United States ; ^unThow'*^^'^ 
and when the proportion of each of said towns cannot be de- dmgj'on of'a''" 
termined by reference to said census, it shall be determined '^^^^ 
by a census to be taken, as soon as may be, by some suitable 
person appointed for that purpose by the treasurer of the 
state, on application of either of such towns, unless they shall 
agree upon the mode of division. 

§ 248 Every town shall keep its share of the said money &s sec 19s?. 
as a deposit in trust for the state, and account for the same Revi888§i88 
when called for; and until called for, shall appropriate the conditions of 
entire income thereof, annuall)':, for the support of public 
schools therein. 



76 



6 S itc lOSlt 

1836 
Rev 1888 §189 

CuBtodian of 
fund; duties 



O S sec 19H5 

1836 
Rev 1888 §190 

Treasurer to 
give bond and 
report losses 



Q S sec 19S6 

1836 1874 

Rev 1888 §191 



Management of 
town deposit 
fund 



G S sec 19^7 
1&36 1874 
Rev 1888 §192 
Deficiency in 
fund to be 
made good 

O S sec 1928 
1846 1885 
Rev 1888 §193 



Proceedings 
when a town 
declines to 
receive fund 



§ 249 The treasurer of each town, or such person as the 
town shall appoint,^ shall have the custody of said fund and 
be the treasurer thereof ; and shall keep separate accounts re- 
lating to the fund and exhibit at each annual town meeting an ac- 
count showing the amount of the fund, how invested, the 
amount of its income, to whom paid, for what, and the balance 
remaining in the treasury ; which account shall be recorded and 
kept on file by the town clerk ; and no payments shall be made 
from the fund except on orders drawn by the agent appointed 
by the town, specifying whether they are to be paid from the 
principal or income of the fund. 

§ 250 Such treasurer shall, immediately after his appoint- 
ment, execute a bond to the town, with surety to the acceptance 
of the selectmen, for the faithful execution of his office as 
treasurer of the fund ; and any loss or deficiency in the fund 
belonging to such town, and any illegal or improper manage- 
ment or application of its income, which shall come to his 
knowledge, he shall immediately report to the comptroller, and 
shall forfeit to the state 'twenty dollars for every week that he 
shall neglect to make such report. 

§ 251 The town deposit fund in each town shall be 
managed by such agents- as the town shall appoint, who shall 
lend it on notes payable to the town, secured by mortgage of 
real estate, in value double the amount of the sum loaned, and 
no expense shall be deducted from the principal of the fund ; 
and when any loan shall be paid in full, the treasurer of the 
town where the loan was made may release the mortgaged 
premises ; and any town may authorize its managers to invest 
said fund, or any part thereof, in the stock of any bank in this 
state, in the bonds or securities of any city, town, or borough 
in this state, or in the bonds, loans, or securities of this state 
or of the United States. 

§ 252 Each town shall make good any deficiency which 
may occur in said fund, and on failure to make such deficiency 
good within one year after it shall occur, shall forfeit to the 
state a sum equal to the amount thereof. 

§ 253 If any town shall not agree to receive its propor- 
tion of said money on the terms specified in this chapter, the 
treasurer of the state may, at the expense of said town, loan 
the same on note payable to the state, secured by mortgage of 
real estate, in value at least double the amount of the loan, or 
he may deposit the same in any bank in this state, at interest ; 
and any interest which he may receive for the said loans or 
deposits shall be paid by said treasurer to the treasurer of 



§97 



97 



77 

such town, to be by it appropriated for the support of schools 
annually, and it shall be liable for its due application in the 
same manner as if it had agreed to receive its proportion of the 
principal. 

§ 254 In case of the division of any town, and the appor- assecin9 
tionment of its town deposit fund, the treasurer of the state Rev^^§i94 
may exchange the receipt of such town for new receipts for on division of 
the same from the agents of the towns so constituted by such recel^s"^^ 
division. '"^y ^"^ ^'^'^^^ 

§ 255 The treasurers of the several towns, upon the re- QSsecwso 
ceipt of the amount of any loan made from the town deposit Rev'^^^ils 
fund, may, with the assent of the managers of the fund for Release or 
such town, execute an assignment or release of any security ofsfcwfty' 
held for such loan, and convey to the assignee or releasee the 
legal title to the premises mortgaged to secure the payment of 
such loan. 

Chapter XTX 
Public Libraries 

General Statutes, Chapter 262, page 1 104 

§ 256 Any town, borough, or city may establish a public "^ "^ ** gel ^'^ 
library, the use of which, under proper regulations, shall be Revises §§143 
free to its inhabitants, and may expend such sum of money as i893chi78§i 
may be necessary to provide and furnish suitable rooms or a Estabiishmeat 
suitable building for the library so established, or for a pre- 
viously existing public library, the use of which is free to its 
inhabitants. 

§ 257 Any town, borough, or city, may annually expend ^^ tecue^is 
such sum of money as shall be necessary for the proper main- 
tenance and increase of a free public library within its limits. Appropriation 
Any town shall have power at any meeting, duly called for 
the purpose, to fix by a proper by-law, the amount which shall 
be annually expended for the public library therein. The 
treasurer of such town shall thereafter annually pay, upon the 
order of the officer designated by the directors or trustees 
managing its public library, the bills incurred for the main- 
tenance and increase of said library, not exceeding in the 
aggregate the sum specified in said by-law. The town clerk 
may deposit in the public library within his town any books, 
other than records, placed by law or otherwise in his custody. 

§ 258 Any town, borough, or city may appropriate and 1905 ch 41 
expend such sums of money as may be necessary to provide 
and pay for the land for a suitable site for a public library, 
situated in such town, borough, or city, which library may be 



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S sec ISM 

18691880 
Rev 1888 §144 
1893 ch 178 §3 
Gifts 

Q S nee U619 
1893 ch 178 §4 

Directors 



G S sec U630 
1893 ch 178 

§§5 6 

Directove' 
election 



(r S sec U631 
1893 ch 178 

§§7 8 
1895 ch 24 
1901 ch 73 
1905 ch 98 §1 

Connecticut 

public library 

committee; 

expense 



the property of a corporation without capital stock, or may 
be the property of such town, borough, or city ; but such 
library shall be free to its inhabitants ; and such town, borough, 
or city may appropriate such sums of money as may be 
necessary to maintain and support such library for a term of 
not exceeding ten years. 

§ 259 Any town, borough, or city, may receive, hold 
and manage any devise, bequest, or gift for the establishment, 
increase, or maintenance of a public library within its limits.-^ 

§ 260 In the absence of any other lawful provision for 
the mariagement of a public library in any town or borough, 
the said town or borough shall elect a board of directors^ who 
shall manage said library. Said board may, from time to time, 
make by-laws not inconsistent with the laws of this state for 
its own government and may adopt rules controlling the use 
of the library and the administration of its affairs. Said board 
shall have the exclusive right to expend according to its best 
judgment all money appropriated by the town or borough for 
the library, and shall have control of the library grounds, 
buildings, and rooms. 

§ 261 The first election of directors may take place at 
any meeting of the town or borough called for that purpose. 
It shall first be determined by a by-law of the town, to be 
adopted at this meeting, what the number of directors con- 
stituting said board shall be, such number to be in all cases 
one divisible by three. ^ One-third of this number shall then 
be elected* by ballot to hold office until the next annual meet- 
ing, one-third until the second annual meeting, and one-third 
until the third annual meeting thereafter. At each subsequent 
annual meeting of said town or borough, one-third of the 
directors shall be elected by ballot to hold office for three 
}-ears. No director of a public library so elected shall receive 
compensation for any services rendered as director. 

§ 262 The state board of education shall annually ap- 
point five persons who shall be known as the Connecticut 
public library committee. No member of said committee 
shall receive any compensation for his services as such mem- 
ber, but the members of said committee shall be paid their 
necessary expenses. The committee may expend a sum not 
to exceed two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for 
the purposes set forth in section two of this act for clerical 
assistance and incidental and necessary expenses incurred in 

' Devise to city, with discretionary power as to its application, sustained, 
although at the time of testator's death there was no public library 60 Conn 32 
2 §97 ^See %g-j '^ Plurality elects §98 



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the discharge of its duties. The treasurer of the state shall 
pay the bills incurred under this act upon the order of the state 
board of education. Said board shall keep and semi-annually 
render to the comptroller an account of all money expended 
under this act, and the comptroller shall audit said account. 

§263 The librarian or director of any public library and 
the teachers of any public school may ask said committee 
for advice and assistance in regard to the selection, purchase, 
and cataloguing of books, and any other matters pertaining 
to the maintenance or administration of the library, and the i893chi78§9 
committee shall give advice and assistance in regard to said 1895 ch 294 
matters so far as it shall find it practicable to do so. The com- ad^°e*Teport 
mittee shall annually report its doings to the governor. 

§ 264 The Connecticut public library committee shall give 
to communities advice and assistance in the organization, 
establishment, and administration of free public libraries, and 
shall extend to all free public libraries aid in selecting and 
cataloguing books and in library management, and may for 
the purposes of this act visit and inspect libraries organized 
under the provisions of section 267 of the general statutes, 1905 di 98 §2 
and may suggest improvements in said libraries. Said com- 
mittee is authorized to purchase and arrange books and pic- 
tures to be loaned to such public libraries, schools, associa- 
tions, and individuals as the committee may select. 

§ 265 No person shall be ineligible by reason of sex to assecuess 
serve on the board of directors of any public library, or on the Bofrd'of ^ ^^^ 
Connecticut public library committee. directors; 

, , , . woiuen eligible 

§ 266 The libraries established under the provisions of ossecuese 
this chapter, and any free public library receiving a state appro- 1895 ch 284 
priation, shall annually make a report to the Connecticut ifbfarys ^ 
public library committee. 

§ 267 If any town having no free public library shall es- <5^ ■s' ««c a6^(s 
tablish a free public library and shall provide for the care, cus- state*^ grant to 
ody, and distribution of books and for the future maintenance ***^^° libraries 
and increase of such library in a manner satisfactory to said 
library committee, said committee may expend for books to 
be selected by the said committee a sum not to exceed the 
amount expended by the said town for the establishment of 
such library and not to exceed two hundred dollars. 

§ 268 In towns whose grand list exceeds six hundred ^fg^J^^ 
thousand dollars, the Connecticut public library committee 
may expend annually, for books selected by it for any such 
library, a sum not to exceed the amount annually appro- Expenditure 
priated and expended by the town for the increase of said 
library. In towns whose grand list does not exceed six 



8o 



6' S nee MSI, 
1893 ch 178 till 
State treaenrer 
to pay billB 



hundred thousand dollars, said committee may expend an- 
nually, for books selected by it for any such library, a sum not 
to exceed the amount annually appropriated and expended 
from any source for the increase of such library. The ex- 
penditure by said committee shall not exceed the sum of one 
hundred dollars, annually, for any library. 

§ 269 The treasurer of the state shall pay the bills in- 
curred under the provisions of law for free libraries, upon the 
order of the secretary of the state board of education. Said 
board shall keep an account of all moneys expended under 
§§ 262 and 267, and the comptroller shall annually audit said 
account. The provisions of §§ 26 and 28 of the general stat- 
utes shall not apply to the payment of money expended 
under §§ 262 and 267. 



O S sec 16hS 
1836 1851 186T 

1877 
Rev 1888 §335 
1880 ch 247 §6 
1895 ch 267 §6 
1897 ch 318 §6 
1899 ch 307 §2 

1907 ch 187 §1 
Officers on one 
ballot 



O S sec 16U9 
. 1859 1874 1877 

Rev 1888 §238 
1889 ch 347 

§§7 9 
1895ch2r)7 

§§7 9 
1897 ch 213 
§§7 9 
1899 ch 207 §3 
What ballote 
in one envelope; 
when not to be 
connf<'d 



Chapter XX 
Elections and Electors 

Provisions relating to education and schools ' 
General Statutes, Chapter 104, page 445 

§ 270 Votes cast for electors of president and vice-presi- 
dent, governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, treasurer, 
comptroller, attorney-general, representative at large, repre- 
sentative in congress, senator, representative or representatives 
as the case may be, sheriff, and judge of probate, or so many 
thereof as shall be voted for at one and the same election, 
shall be on one ballot, which ballot shall be eight inches long 
by five inches wide. Votes cast for justices of the peace, town, 
city, borough, and school officers, or so many thereof as shall 
be voted for at one and the saine election, shall be on one 
ballot, which ballot shall be six inches long by five and one-half 
inches wide. 

§ 271 Each elector may place in the envelope^ received 
by him one ballot^ for electors of president and vice-president, 
governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, treasurer, comp- 
troller, attorney-general, representative at large, representa- 
tive in congress, senator, representative or representatives, as 
the case may be, sheriflf, and judge of probate, or so many 
thereof as shall be voted for at one and the same election, 
and one ballot for justices of the peace, town, city, borough, 

' For provision relating to corrupt practices see Gen Stat § 1694 
^ Envelope not required when voting on consolidation of school districts 
§ 190 

3 Gen Stat § 1632 



8i 

and school officers, or so many thereof as shall be voted for at 
one and the same election, and one vote for the approval or 
disapproval of any constitutional amendment submitted for 
ratification at said election; and one vote for or against any (y^^gggisn 
educational purpose under the special laws of this state} * * isoi 

i,, , . . , Rev 1888 §52 

§ 272 The moderator of any town meetmg, annual or power of 
special, and of any meeting of any society or other community ^pp"eM°' ^^ 
lawfully assembled, may, when any disorder arises in the meet- <^'3""i^'" 
ing, and the offender shall refuse to submit to his lawful au- 
thority, order any proper officer to take him into custody, and, 
if necessary, to remove him from such meeting until he shall 
conform to order, or, if need be, until suCh meeting shall be 
closed, and thereupon such officer shall have power to com- 
mand all necessary assistance, and any person refusing to assist 
when commanded shall be liable to the same penalties as for re- 
fusing to assist sheriffs and constables in the execution of their 
offices ; but no person commanded to assist shall be deprived 
of his right to act in the meeting, nor shall the offender be so QSsecm9 
deprived any longer than he refuses to conform to order .^ 1393 ch see §? 

„ , , it, ' • What women 

§ 273 Ihose women whose names appear upon the regis- may vote for 
try list of women voters shall be entitled to vote in any meet- 
ing held for choosing school officers or upon any matter re- assecieie 
lating to education or to schools. i^fchitl 

§ 274 The registrars of every town shall also enter upon separate list of 
a separate list under the title " women's list, to be made," the made^° ^ "^^ 
names of those women by whom or in whose behalf the claim 
is made to either registrar that they will be entitled to vote for 
school officers and on questions relating to education or to 
schools, and all applications " to be made " in favor of women, 
shall be at the same times and in the same form and set forth 
the same information as applications for men to be made elect- 
ors, and such claims and applications shall be received by said 
registrars and heard and determined by the town clerk and 
selectmen at the same time that claims and applications by g s sec m9 
men to be made electors are received, heard, and determined. JgQTchfi!^' 

§ 275 Every woman who shall have attained the age of women voters 
twenty-one years, who shall be a citizen of this state or of the 
United States, and who will have resided in the state one year 
and in the town six; months, and can read the English language, 

' Ballots marked by folding or being torn ; person named not being candi- 
date ; double pasters ; enclosure in envelope ; defective printing ; ballots for 
other voting places 62 Conn 261 

' The enforcement of this provision requires no issue of process 65 
Conn 30 



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Q a sec 16S0 
1893 ch 366 
1897 ch 114 

Women to 

qualify; lists; 
penalty 



O S sec 16S1 
1893 ch 266 

Separate 
voting lists 



O Ssec 1661 
1893 ch 266 §5 
1895 ch 267 §16 
]897ch213§16 
1899 ch 207 §5 

Ballot box for 

women's 

ballots 



shall, after having been duly admitted, have the right to vote 
for any officer of schools and upon any question relating to 
education or to schools. 

§ 276 The board of selectmen and town clerk shall at 
any meeting held by them for the admission of electors, ex- 
amine the qualifications of those women by whom or in whose 
behalf application has been made to be admitted as voters for 
school officers and upon any question relating to education or 
to schools, and whose names appear on the " women's list — ■ to 
be made," and shall cause the person in whose favor such 
application is made to testify under oath to her qualifications 
to be made such voter, and shall deliver to the town clerk a 
certified list in writing of all women who are found to possess 
the requisite qualifications to be made such voters, which said 
list shall be kept by said town clerk as an official list ; and the 
registrars may restore to said list the name of any woman, 
subject to the same restrictions and conditions as apply to 
restoration of nimes to the list of electors. Every woman 
who shall testify falsely as to her qualifications to be made a 
. voter, or knowingly vote illegally at any town, school, or dis- 
trict meeting, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or im- 
prisoned not more than thirty days. 

§ 277 Whenever registry lists shall be used by those vot- 
ing in school district meetings, the registrars of voters of the 
town in which such districts are situated, shall prepare sepa- 
rate lists of the names of those women residing in such school 
districts, or the voting districts of any such school districts, 
that have been admitted as voters. 

§ 278 At all elections at which women are by law entitled 
to vote there shall be provided separate ballots containing, in 
addition to the name of the party issuing the same, only the 
names of candidates and titles of officers for which women 
are entitled to vote, and there shall be provided at such elec- 
tions a separate ballot box, distinctly marked " for women's 
ballots," in which shall be deposited all ballots cast by women. 



Chapter XXI 
Health, Sanitation, and Safety 

General Statutes, Chapter 131, page 563. 



O S sec tm 
1893ch285SSl 
2 



§ 279 Every schoolhouse shall be kept in a cleanly state 
and free from effluvia arising from any dfain, privy, or other 



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nuisance, and shall be provided with a sufficient number of 
proper water closets, earth closets, or privies, for the use of sanitary 
the pupils attending such schoolhouse, and shall be properly schoomouse 
ventilated. 

§ 280 Whenever it shall be found by the state board of 
education, or by the board of school visitors, or by a member 
of the town school committee of the town in which any school- 
house is located, that further or different sanitary provisions 
or means of lighting or ventilating are required in any school- ^ ^ '^^ ^^^ 
house, and that the same can be provided without unreason- '' *^. 

-.,, , , , -, Unsamtarv 

able expense, either of said boards, or such member of the conditions; 
town school committee may recommend to the person or au- to remedy' 
thority in charge of or controlling such schoolhouse such 
changes in the ventilation, lighting, or sanitary arrangements 
of such schoolhouse as they may deem necessary. In case 
such changes be not made substantially as recommended within 
two weeks from the date of notice thereof such board or mem- 
ber of the committee may make complaint to the proper health 
authority of the community in which such schoolhouse is situ- 
ated, which said authority shall, after notice to and hearing 
of the parties interested, order such changes made in the light- 
ing, ventilation, or sanitary arrangements of such schoolhouse 
as it may deem necessary and proper. 

§ 281 The word schoolhouse as used in §§ 279 and 280 0Si>ec2iuu 
shall include any building or premises in which instruction i^3ch'^5§§4 
is afforded to not less than ten pupils at one time. Every schooihouses 
violation of any provision of §§ 279 or 280 shall be punished '''"^'"^'^ 
by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprison- 
ment for not more than six months, or both.^ 

§ 282 The board of school visitors, town school com- Gsgecgiei 
mittee, or board of education, may require every child to be R^y^i'^liaT 
vaccinated before being permitted to attend a public school i899ch54§i 
under its jurisdiction. If the parents or guardians of any schoorchMrel 
children are unable to pay for such vaccination, the expense 
thereof shall, on the recommendation of said board or com- 
mittee, be paid by the town. Said board or committee may 
exclude from any school under its supervision all children 
under five years of age whenever in its judgment the interest 
of such school will be thereby promoted. 

§ 28'^ The board of school visitors, board of education, 1907 ch 207 §1 

, , . r ,iiri Appointment of 

or town school committee of any town, or the board of educa- school 

. , , . . . physicians 

tion or committee of any school district, may appoint one or 

' The words " public buildings " include schoolhouse Gen Stat § i 



84 



1907 Ch 207 g'i 
Duties 



1907 ch 207 §3 
Children to be 
referred to phy- 
sicians for 
examination 



1907 ch 207' §4 
Annual exam- 
ination of 
children 



1907 ch 207 §5 
Notice of dis- 
ease to be given 
to parent or 
guardian 



more school physicians and assign one to any pubHc school 
within the limits of such town or school district, and shall pro- 
vide such school physicians, when so appointed, with proper 
facilities for the performance of their duties. 

§ 284 Every school physician so appointed shall make 
a prompt examination of all children referred to him as here- 
inafter provided, and such further examination of teachers, 
janitors, and school buildings as in his opinion the protection 
of the health of the pupils may require. 

§ 285 The superintendent, principal, or teacher of any 
school to which a school physician has been assigned as herein- 
before provided shall refer to such physician every child return- 
ing to school without a permit from the health officer or board 
of health, after absence on account of illness or from unknown 
cause, and every child attending such school who appears to be 
in ill health, or is suspected to be sick with any contagious 
or infectious disease, unless such child be immediately excluded 
from such school under the provisions of the general statutes 
or the sanitary regulations in force in said town or district ; 
provided, that in the case of schools in remote and isolated loca- 
tions the school committee may make such other arrangements 
as may be advisable to carry out the purposes of this act. 

§ 286 The school authorities of any town or school dis- 
trict which has appointed a school physician in accordance with 
the provisions of this act shall cause every child attending the 
public schools therein to be separately and carefully tested and 
examined at least once in every school year to ascertain whether 
such child is suffering from defective sight or hearing, or from 
any other physicial disability tending to prevent such child from 
receiving the full benefit of school work, or requiring a modi- 
fication of such school work in order to prevent injury to the 
child or to secure the best educational results. 

§ 287 Notice of the disease or defects, if any, from 
which any child is found by such school physician to be suffer- 
ing shall be given to the parent or guardian of such child with 
such advice or order relating thereto as said physician may 
deem advisable, and whenever any child shows symptoms of 
any contagious or infectious disease notice shall also be given 
to the health officer or board of health and such child may be 
excluded from attendance at such school in accordance with 
the provisions of the general statutes or the sanitary regula- 
tions in force in the town or district. 



85 

§ 288 Whenever the board of school visitors, board of i90Tch207§6 
education, or town school committee of any town, or the board matron or " ° 
of education or district committee of any school district, shall 
have appointed a school physician as provided in section 283, 
said board or committee may also appoint a matron or nurse 
who shall take such action, under the direction of the school 
physician, as may be necessary for safeguarding the health 
of the pupils and teachers of the schools. Such matron or 
nurse shall also act, under the direction of the school phy- 
sician, as a visiting nurse in the town or school district, shall 
visit the homes of pupils in the public schools, and shall assist 
in executing the orders of the school physician. 

§ 289 The expenses incurred under the provisions of i90Tch207§7 

, . 1 11 1 • 1 • 1 1 1. Espenees, how 

this act shall be paid in the same manner as are the ordinary paid 
expenses for the support of schools in the several towns and 
school districts. 

§ 290 In all cities the common council, in all boroughs osseceeoi 
the warden and burgesses, and in all towns and parts of a r^i'^^S 
town not within the limits of a city or borough the select- safe exit to be 
men, shall require that all churches, schoolhouses, and public public ^*^ ^""^ 
halls that are used for lectures, amusements, exhibitions, or ''"'''^'"g^ 
assemblages of people, shall be provided with ample facilities 
for safe and speedy entrance and exit in case of necessity, be 
arranged so as to promote the comfort and safety of persons 
visiting them, and be closed. till such requirements are com- 
plied with ; and any city, borough, or town may make suitable 
by-laws regarding the same. 

§ 291 Every story above the first story of a building used os sec sees 
as a schoolhouse, orphan asylum, insane asylum, reformatory, Kevi888§2645 
opera house, hall for public assemblies, boarding house ac- ig^^ch^sl^i 
commodating more than twelve persons, or tenement house 1^95 ch 254 
occupied by more than five families, shall be provided with b"prov^^d^*^ 
more than one way of egress, by stairways on the inside or 
fire escapes on the outside of such building. Said stairways 
and fire escapes shall, at all times, be kept free from obstruc- 
tion and shall be accessible from each room in every story 
above the first story. 

§ 292 No barbed wire shall be used in the construction of <? ^ '^^c uo7o 
fences, or retained upon existing fences, connected with or i897*ch52 



enclosing the grounds of any public school or public building, use of barbed 
Every person who shall violate any provision of this section ^^"■*'P'"° 
shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. 



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ossecsois § 293 The county health officer shall cause the execution 

1895 ch 352 1! of the laws relating to public health and the prevention and 
1897 ch 175 abatement of nuisances dangerous to public health, and of the 
aKcer"*! '^powers laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and co- 
and duties operate with and super\ase the doings of town, city, and bor- 
ough health officers, and boards of health, within his county. 
He shall have all the powers of a grand juror in each of the 
several towns within his county, and all the powers of the 
prosecuting officer of each city, borough, town, or police court 
within his county in prosecutions for violations of the laws 
concerning contagious diseases and public health, nuisances 
injurious to health or life, for violations of by-laws or or- 
dinances relating to public health and contagious diseases 
adopted by a city or borough, for the violation of the orders 
of town, city, or borough health officers, for the prevention or 
removal of nuisances dangerous to public health, for violations 
of the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, to the 
practice of medicine, surgery, or midwifery, and of the laws 
relating to the sale of poisons and antitoxine. County health 
officers may sign complaints, in any town, city, or borough in 
the county, to run into the same or any other town, city, or 
borough in the county. 
GSsecsssj § 294 The county health officer shall, in writing, appoint 

Rev^^^88 for each town some discreet person, learned in medical and 
1893 ch 348 §6 sanitary scicncc, to be health officer for said town, except in 
bee §2531 towus Containing a city or borough whose limits are coter- 
an(l**juri8Sction miiious with the limits of said town. In each town, except in 
office^ ^^^'^^ towns having a city or borough within their limits, said town 
health officer shall have and exercise all the powers necessary 
and proper for preserving the pYiblic health and preventing 
the spread of diseases ; and in towns within which there exists 
a city or borough the limits of which are not coterminous 
with the limits of such town such town health officer shall 
exercise the powers and duties of his office only in such part 
of said town as is outside the limits of said city or borough. 
Each town health officer, except when appointed to fill a 
vacancy, shall hold his office for four years from and after the 
first Monday of October and until his successor is appointed 
and sworn, unless sooner removed.^ 

' Provisions of statute de powers of health officers A^Id constitutional 51 
Conn 99-101 



^7 

Chapter XXII 
Care and Reformation of Children 

Temporary County Homes. 

§ 295 For the better protection of children between the asseesiss 
ages of four and eighteen years, of the classes hereinafter de- Revi^saess 
scribed, to wit: waifs, strays, children in charge of overseers ^^g^'^^'j^'^^' 
of the poor, children of prisoners, drunkards, or paupers, and i9oi ch i84 §1 
others committed to hospitals, almshouses, or workhouses, and 
all children within said ages, deserted, neglected, cruelly treated, children 
or dependent, or living in any disorderly house, or house re- "^^™ ^ 
puted to be a house of ill-fame or assignation, there shall be 
provided in each county one or more places of refuge to be 
known as temporary homes. No such home shall be located 
within one-half mile of any penal or pauper institution ; and 
no pauper or convict shall be permitted to live or labor therein. 
No such home shall be used as a permanent residence for any 
child, but for its temporary protection, for so long a time only 
as shall be absolutely necessary for the placing of the child in a 
well selected family home. 

§ 296 Any court of probate, any city, police, borough, or as sec 2795 
town court may, upon proceedings instituted in the manner i883i885 
provided for the commitment of children to the inciustrial or re- 
form schools of the state, or upon the petition of the Connecti- ^^^g^g^h^l^^^ 
cut humane society or the state board of charities, commit any }^A*^J?^i^ 

•' •' 1899 en 200 

child belonging to the classes enumerated in § 295 to any i9oicM84§§.i 
temporary home that may have been established until such commitments 
male child shall be sixteen vears of age and until such female of neglected 

. .0 _ children to 

child shall be eighteen years of age, unless sooner discharged homes 
by the board of management of the temporary home in the 
county in which such child is committed. Said board may 
place any such child in any private family or in any chartered 
orphan asylum or children's home in this state wherein such 
child will be accepted for the period for which such child was 
committed to such temporary home or for any portion thereof. 
The authority committing any child shall, within thirty days 
after such commitment, transmit a certified copy of the items 
of the costs of such proceedings to the clerk of the superior 
court for the county in which the trial or hearing was had, 
and such costs shall be paid as costs are paid in criminal cases 
coming to the superior court from an inferior court. The ex- 
penses for the support of such children so committed shall be 
paid in the same manner as the expenses for the support of 
children committed to the Connecticut industrial school for 
girls and the Connecticut school for boys. No payment shall 



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G S sec 2SiS 
1851 1857 1864 

1879 1881 
Rev 1888 §3628 

1893 ch 92 
1901 ch 184 §3 

Commitments 
of boys to said 
school 



Q S sec 283U 
1901 ch 56 
1903 ch 35 
When boy 
under ten to be 
committed to 
the school 
O Ssec 2825 
1901 ch 57 

United States 
courts may 
commit boys 



be made to any asylum or children's home for or on account 
of any girl after she shall have arrived at the age of sixteen 
years.^ 

Connecticut School for Boys 

§ 297 No court or justice of the peace shall commit any 
child under sixteen years of age as vicious, truant, or incor- 
rigible, to any jail, almshouse, or workhouse. When any boy 
under the age of sixteen years shall be convicted of any crime 
or misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment, other 
than imprisonment for life, the court or justice of the peace, as 
the case may be, may commit him to the Connecticut school for 
boys, to remain until he shall arrive at the age of twenty-one 
years unless sooner discharged by the board of trustees. The 
judges of the criminal and police courts of the state, and jus- 
tices of the peace, may commit to the Connecticut school for 
boys : first, any boy under sixteen years of age, who may be 
liable to punishment by imprisonment under any existing law 
of the state, or any law that may be enacted and in force in the 
state; second, with the consent of his parent or guardian, any 
boy under sixteen years of age, against whom any charge of 
committing any crime or misdemeanor shall have been made, 
the punishment of which, on conviction, would be confinement 
in jail or prison ; third, any boy under sixteen years of age who 
is destitute of a suitable home and adequate means of obtain- 
ing an honest living, and who is in danger of being brought up, 
or is brought up, to lead an idle or vicious life ; fourth, any 
boy under sixteen years of agi^, who is incorrigible, or habitu- 
ally disregards the commands of his father or mother, or guar- 
dian, or leads a vagrant life, or resorts to immoral places or 
practices, or neglects or refuses to perform labor suitable to 
his years and condition, or to attend school.^ 

§ 298 No boy under ten years of age shall be committed 
to the Connecticut school for boys except upon conviction of 
an ofifense for which the punishment is imprisonment in the 
state prison or in a county jail. 

§ 299 The Connecticut school for boys may be used under 
the authority of the United States for the confinement of any 
boy over the age of ten years and under the age of sixteen 
years, convicted in the United States court for the district of 
Connecticut of any crime or misdemeanor punishable by fine 
or imprisonment, other than imprisonment for life, who shall 

' Board not bound to permit withdrawal of child under any circumstances 
61 Conn 268 

^ Statute constitutional Court may take up the matter without formal 
complaint 51 Conn 472 



89 

be committed to said school until he shall arrive at the age of 
twenty-one years, unless sooner discharged by the board of 
trustees of said school ; but the expense of supporting and con- 
fining any boy so committed shall be paid by the United States. 

§ 300 Every boy sent to the Connecticut school for boys GSm-ssse 
shall remain until he is twenty-one years of age, unless sooner Rev^s^sd 
discharged or bound as an apprentice ; but no boy shall be re- ^^^ *^^ ^^ 
tained after the superintendent shall have reported him fullv at'schoorhow" 
reformed. ' '°"s 

Connecticut Indtistrial School for Girls 

§ 301 The Connecticut industrial school for girls shall, GSsecssse 

• • • .... 1886 

so long as it remains an incorporated institution of this state Revises §3638 
and maintains a school for the benefit of children connected To be a school 
therewith, be a separate school district, with a territorial limit 
including the grounds and buildings occupied by the inmates of 
said institution as homes. All other territory belonging to said 
institution shall be a part of the district to which the same 
territory belonged before the industrial school for girls was es- 
tablished. 

§ 302 The directors of the Connecticut industrial school assecsss? 
for girls shall be the school committee of said district, and shall ^^ i8^363» 
possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties within i893chi64§i 
said district that are possessed by the school visitors in the ^. ^ ^ 

^ . -' . ... Directors to 

several towns. They may appoint an acting school visitor in be school 
said district, who shall possess within said district all the 
powers and be subject to all the duties of similar officers ap- 
pointed by school visitors. The authority of the board of 
school visitors of the town in which said district is situated 
shall extend only to the remaining portion of said town, and 
their returns and certificates shall include only the children 
of such remaining portion. 

§ 303 The treasurer of the Connecticut industrial school assecfms 
for girls shall draw an order each year in favor of said dis- Revi8^^§3640 
trict on the treasurer of said town, for the proportionate i893chi64§2 
amount to which said district may be entitled of all moneys f^'v^saidsdloo! 
appropriated by law for the benefit, support, and encourage- 
ment of public schools, as is provided in respect to towns. 

§ 304 The parent or guardian of any girl between the <? s .sw 2&« 
ages of eight and sixteen years, or a selectman or grand juror \^ |^g Jg^f 
or other informing officer of the town where she may be found, Revi888p64i 
may present a written complaint to the judge of the court of 
probate for the district in which such town is, or to any justice IInt°t™sJi<f 
of the peace of such town, or to the judge of the police court *^'"'°' 
of any city where she may be found, alleging that she has com- 
mitted any offense within the final jurisdiction of a justice of 



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the peace, or is rude, stubborn, and unruly, or is an habitual 
truant from school, or is the child of a person who has had 
town relief, and is by such parent suffered to misspend her 
time, and to be without any honest calling, or is so ill provided 
for by her parents as to be exposed to want, or is exposed 
to want with none to care for her, or is leading an idle, vagrant, 
or vicious life, or is in manifest danger of falling into habits of 
vice, and praying that she may be sent to the Connecticut indus- 
trial school for girls, and such judge or justice of the peace shall 
thereupon, after notice to her and such other notice as he may 
deem proper, inquire into said complaint, and, on being satis- 
fied of the truth of the allegations therein, may order her to be 
committed to the guardianship and control of such school until 
she shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years, unless sooner 
lawfully discharged, and, if he finds that she has committed 
an offense punishable by imprisonment, other than imprison- 
ment for life, she may be sentenced to the Connecticut indus- 
trial school for girls, or judgment may be suspended, on such 
terms and for such time as he may prescribe ; and said authority 
may issue a warrant for the execution of such sentence ; but 
this chapter shall not be construed to deprive any girl of four- 
teen years of age and upward from the privilege of choosing 
her own guardian with the approval of the court of probate, as 
provided by law. 

Appeals 
GSsecss^.!, § 305 An appeal shall lie from any judgment, order, or 

is93chi23 decree, committing any child* to the Connecticut school for 
Appeals from boys, to the Connccticut industrial school for girls, or to any 
schools or"*' " county homc for dependent or neglected children, to the 
comity homes ^^^^ ^^^.^^ ^£ ^j^^ Criminal court of common pleas to be held 

within and for the county where such judgment is rendered; 
but in towns within the appellate jurisdiction in criminal 
cases of the district court of Waterbury, such appeal shall be 
taken to the next criminal term of said district court ; and in 
cases not in the jurisdiction of such criminal court of common 
'pleas or district court to the next criminal term of the superior 
court. Such appeal may be taken by any parent or guardian 
of the child so committed, or by the selectmen of the town in 
which such judgment is rendered, within twenty days there- 
after; and the appellant shall enter into a recognizance, with 
surety, to the state, conditioned to answer to the complaint 
and abide the order and judgment of the court thereon. Com- 
plaints under §§ 296, 297, and 304 shall, on appeal, be 
tried by a jury, and such child shall be produced in court, 
during trial and to receive final judgment, by the appellant or 



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by the person or persons having such child in their possession 
or control. 

Fees 
§ 306 There shall be allowed in each case of commitment ^ "^ ^^^' '■^f/' 
to the Connecticut school for boys, a temporary home, or the 
Connecticut industrial school for girls, the same fees for com- commitments 
plaint and warrant, or order, that are allowed by law for com- county homes 
plaints and warrants in criminal cases ; and there shall be 
allowed to the grand jurors or prosecuting officers attending 
such cases the same fees for travel and attendance as are 
allowed by law to grand jurors in criminal cases. 

Costs 
§ 307 The authority committing any bo)'^ to the Con- (^ssecssse 
necticut school for boys, or committing any child to the Rev 1888 §.3t>43 
home for dependent and neglected children in any county, or 
committing any girl to the Connecticut industrial school for commitment to 
girls, shall transmit a certified copy of the items of the costs county homes 
on the complaint to the clerk of the superior court for the 
county in which the trial or hearing was had, within thirty 
days after the trial or hearing, and said costs shall be taxed 
and paid as costs are taxed and paid in criminal cases coming 
to the superior court from an inferior court. 

School for Imbeciles 
§ 308 Whenever there shall be found in any town in this GSsecvsi 
state any pauper or indigent imbecile child, who would be Revi8^§489 
benefited by being sent to the school for imbeciles at Lake- commitment 
ville, the selectmen of such town shall make application to pooMmbecUe 
the court of probate for the district in which such town is '^'i'''^''^" 
situated for the admission of such child to said school, and if, 
upon inquiry, said court shall find that said child is a proper 
subject to be received into said school, it shall order said 
selectmen to take such child to said school, to be kept and 
supported for such length of time as said court may deem 
proper. Said selectmen shall not take or commit any such 
child to said school until the order of said court has been 
approved by the governor, and no child shall be received at 
said school to be supported in any manner by the state with- 
out the approval of the governor. There shall be taxed by 
the comptroller two dollars and fifty cents a week for each 
week such child shall remain at said school, and the principal 
of said school shall make his bill therefor quarterly, and pre- 
sent it to the governor, upon whose approval it shall be paid 
by the state treasurer, and the balance shall be paid by the 
parents or grandparents of said child, or, if the child is a 
pauper, by the town in which said child belongs. 



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Chapteu XXIII 



O S tec lies 

1884 
Rev 1888 IMll 

Unla\vful 
exhibition or 
employment 
of child 



1907 ch 69 
Penalty for 
causing delin- 
quency or de- 
pendency : sus- 
pension or sen- 
tence 



O S sec 1169 

1832 

Rev 1888 §1428 

1899 ch 139 

See§l 

Injury to public 
buildings 
furniture and 
voting booths 



Crimes 

Offenses against the Person 

§ 3og Every person who shall exhibit, use, employ, ap- 
prentice, give au^ay, let out, or otherwise dispose of any child 
under the age of twelve years, in or for the vocation, occupa- 
tion, service, or purpose of rope or wire walking, dancing, 
skating, bicycling, or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, 
rider, or acrobat, in any place whatever ; or for or in any ob- 
scene, indecent, or immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice, 
whatsoever; or for or in any business, exhibition, or vocation, 
injurious to the health, or dangerous to the life or limb of 
such child ; or who shall cause, procure, or encourage any 
such child to engage therein, shall be fined not more than two 
hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more than one 
year, or both. But nothing herein shall prevent the employ- 
ment of any such child as a singer or musician, in any church 
or school, or in learning or teaching the science or practice 
of music. 

§ 310 Any parent, guardian, or other person who shall, 
by any act or neglect, cause, encourage, contribute to, or be 
responsible for such conduct or condition of any child under 
sixteen years of age as by statute is made cause for the com- 
mitment of such child to the Connecticut school for boys, the 
Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, or a county temporary 
home, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or 
imprisoned not more than six months, or both. The court 
may impose conditions upon any person convicted under the 
provisions of this act, and so long as such person shall comply 
therewith to the satisfaction of the court the sentence imposed 
may be suspended. 

Offenses against Public Property 

§ 311 Every person who shall wilfull}^ injure any public 
building,^ or who shall wilfully injure or carry away any stove, 
stove-pipe, or furniture, in and belonging to any such build- 
ing, or who shall wilfully deface or injure a voting booth or 
compartment, shall be fined . not more than one hundred 
dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.^ 

' For definition of public building see Gen Stat ^ i 

' Complaint must set out with particularity the "injury" 62 Conn 131 
"Wilfully" means in a spirit of wantonness or with an evil intent or guilty 
purpose 71 Conn 742 



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§ 312 Every person who shall wilfully write upon, injure, ossecwu 
or destroy any book, plate, picture, engraving, or statue Revi8^§i438 
belonging to any library not exclusively owned by himself, ^889chi04 
shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, and every property^or^ '° 
person who shall wilfully detain any book, paper, magazine, p«^'»c library 
pamphlet, manuscript, or other property, belonging to any 
town, city, law, university, college, school, or other public or 
incorporated, library, for thirty days after notice in writing 
from the librarian of such library, sent by mail or otherwise 
to the last known or registered place of residence of such 
person, after the expiration of the time during which, by the 
by-laws, rules, or regulations of such library, such book, 
paper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property 
may be kept, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. 
The notice herein required shall bear upon its face a copy of 
this section. 

Offenses against Public Peace and Safety 

§ 313 Every person who shall wilfully interrupt or dis- ^fJ'^'J'^^ 
turb any school,^ or any assembly of people met for a lawful Revissspsoe 
purpose, shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or im- dTsturbmg"^ ^"^ 
prisoned not more than thirty days, or both. meeting^ 

§ 314 Every person who shall prevent a lawful meeting os sec woo 
of any community from proceeding, in an orderly and peace- Rerissssisso 
able manner, to the appointment of a moderator, or shall Disturbance 
abuse him, or a presiding officer of an electors' meeting, or ^ ^^^^ '"^^ 
interrupt either in the discharge of his duty, or, after he has 
commanded silence, shall speak in the meeting without his 
liberty, except to ask reasonable liberty to speak, shall be 
fined not more than fifty dollars. 

Offenses against Public Policy 
§ 315 Any person owning, keeping, or managing, in Qsmcmo 
whole 0|r in part, any dance house, concert saloon, roller skat- i895 ch 216 
ing rink, vaudeville theater, or museum having entertainments 
or variety shows connected with such museum, who shall '-'^otected from 
allow any child under the age of sixteen years to be admitted improper 

.. ,, , ,,.,,. .J amusements 

to or remam m such place, unless such child is accompanied 
by its parent or guardian or some person authorized by such 
parent or guardian to attend such child, shall be fined rfot 
more than fifty dollars. • 

§ 316 Every person who shall sell, give, or deliver to asseasei 
any minor under sixteen years of age, tobacco in any form, issochso 
shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for each offense. to minors ^^^"^ 

' Singing school within terms of statute de interrupting "any public, 
private, or select school" 26 Conn 607; see also 28 Conn 232 



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Q S S€C ISCi 
1889 ch 80 

Use of tobacco 
by minors 



G S gee 1396 

1886 
Rev 1888 §2563 

Presence of 
minore 
forbidden in 
billiard roomB 

G S sec 1385 
1S95 ch 84 

Display of 
foreign flags 



§ 317 Every person under sixteen years of age, who shall 
smoke, or in any way use, in any public street, place, or resort, 
tobacco in any form whatsoever, shall be fined not more than 
seven dollars for each offense. 

§ 318 The proprietor or keeper of any public pool or 
billiard room who shall permit any minor, under the age of 
sixteen years, to loiter in or about such room, or to play any 
game upon the table or tables therein, shall be fined not more 
than seven dollars. 

§ 319 Every person who shall display the flag or emblem 
of any foreign country upon the outside of any state, county, 
city, or town building, or public schoolhouse, shall be fined 
not more than one hundred dollars ; provided, that when any 
foreigner shall become a guest of the United States or of this 
state, upon the proclamation of the governor, the flag of the 
country of such guest may be displayed upon all public build- 
ings except schoolhouses. 



O Ssec 26U7 
1907 ch 200 



Chapter XXIV 

Licenses to Sell Intoxicating Liquors Near Schoolhouses 

§ 320 Licenses for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating 
liquors in cities shall be confined to the efficiently policed parts 
thereof; and no license, except the renewal of a license, at the 
discretion of the county commissioners as to the suitability of 
person and place and subject to appeal, shall be granted in the 
purely residential or manufacturing parts of a town or within 
two hundred feet in a direct line from any church edifice or 
public or parochial schoolhouse, or the premises pertaining 
thereto, except to a well-established hotel of good reputation. 

Chapter XXV 
Special Acts Relating to Towns or Districts 

Ansonia 

Special Act 441, 1901, Page 1046, as amended by Special Act 302, 190S, 

Page 737 

§ 50 The territorial limits of said city as herein described shall here- 
after be, as they now are, one school district. 

§ 51 There shall be in said city a department of education, which 
shall have the care, management, and control of all the schools located 
in said city. 

§ 52 Said department shall be under the control of nine members, 
who shall be known as the board of education, and who shall be 
nominated by the mayor and confirmed by the board of aldermen as 
provided for in section three of this act. 



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§ 53 The members of said board shall receive no compensation for 
their services, except the clerk thereof, who shall receive such com- 
pensation as said board may determine. 

§ 54 Said board shall hold regular meetings every month, and 
such special meetings from time to time as it may appoint or the mayor 
may call. 

§ 55 Said board shall, at its first meeting after its appointment 
and annually thereafter, elect from its number a president, who shall 
preside at all meetings of said board, except when the mayor shall be 
present. It shall also appoint from its number a clerk, who shall keep 
a record in a book for that purpose of all votes, acts, and transactions of 
said board, and shall perform any and all other duties imposed upon him 
by said board or by the provisions of this act. Said board shall elect 
one or more suitable persons truant officers, to act as such in enforcing 
the general statutes regarding school attendance. 

§ 56 Said board of education shall appoint a superintendent of 
schools and such number of assistants, principals, and teachers as it may 
decide to be necessary from time to time, and it shall fix their salaries, 
prescribe the terms of their office, and their duties, in each case. The 
superintendent and teachers and other persons employed by the present 
board of education of said city shall retain their respective positions until 
their successors shall be chosen and duly qualified, and the rules and 
regulations now in force shall remain in full force until repealed or 
otherwise changed. 

§ 57 Said board of education shall have the entire charge and 
direction of all the public schools in said city and of the expenditure 
of all moneys appropriated for the support of the same, and shall keep 
all the school buildings and apparatus used therein in good condition 
and repair, and shall have and possess all the powers and be subject 
to all of the general duties of boards of education, school committees, and 
school visitors in this state, so far as the same are consistent with the 
provisions of this act. It shall make its own by-laws, define the duties of 
its officers and committees, and prescribe such rules and regulations for 
discipline in said public schools as are not inconsistent with the laws of 
this state or this act. 

§ 58 Said board of education shall, during the month of September 
in each year, submit to the board of alderme;n of said city a detailed 
estimate of the expenses for the support of said schools during the en- 
suing year for which appropriation shall be made, specifying so far as 
possible the items of such expense. 
, § 59 Said board of education shall, annually, at the end of each 
fiscal year, transmit to the mayor a full report of its proceedings during 
said year, together with a statement showing the total amount of money 
received and expended for the support of said schools. 

§ 60 Said board of education shall monthly send to the city clerk 
a detailed statement of the expenses incurred during the preceding 
month, and thereupon said clerk shall draw an order upon the city 
treasurer to pay the amount of such expenses. 



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Bridgeport 
Special Acts of 1907, Pages 495, 500 and 527 

§ 4 All burdens and all expenses imposed by law upon the town 
of Bridgeport for the support of schools and for the construction and 
maintenance of schoolhouses shall hereafter be borne by said city and 
shall be defrayed out of the treasury of said city and said city shall 
hereafter perform all the duties and have and exercise all the rights, 
powers, and privileges of and relative to said purposes and matters 
"by law conferred upon said town, and all laws of the state imposing 
such duties, burdens, and expenses, and conferring such rights, powers, 
and privileges upon said town, are hereby amended so as to be hereafter 
applicable to and operative upon said city, except as is herein otherwise 
provided. 

§ 13 At the city meeting in November, 1907, and annually there- 
after, there shall be elected by ballot from the city at large four mem- 
bers of the board of education, who shall be officers of the city, and 
who shall hold their respective offices for the term of three years from 
the Monday next succeeding their election. 

§ 15 At every election for members of the board of education, a 
plurality of votes shall elect, but no voter shall vote for more than 
two of such officers to be elected. In case at any such election there 
shall fail to be a choice of any such officer, then such meeting shall 
stand adjourned to the next following Monday, at the same hour 
of the day when first held, and the election of such officers shall be 
proceeded with in the same manner and determined by the same rule 
as the election on said first day. Should any vacancy occur before the 
expiration of the term of office of any member of said board, the re- 
maining members of said board may appoint some person belonging 
to the same political party to fill such vacancy for the remainder of 
such term. 

§ 83 The city shall continue to be a consolidated school district; 
and it shall be in place of the town of Bridgeport in all duties, powers, 
obligations, and other matters required by law of or by the town in 
all matters concerning education; and it shall act instead of the 
town ; All .the powers, obligations, duties, rights, and property of the 
town, whether as a town or as a consolidated school district, shall 
continue to be vested in and belong to the city. 

§ 84 There shall continue to be a board of education composed of 
twelve members elected as herein provided. The board of education 
shall have all the powers now or hereafter vested in and shall 
perform all the duties now or hereafter imposed by law on the 
school committee and selectmen of towns relative to school and edu- 
cational matters; and said board shall have the superintendence, man- 
agement, and control of all matters concerning education, schools, 
and school property, and the power of fixing or changing the sites of 
schoolhouses. Said board shall audit and approve, monthly, all bills 
for the ordinary current expenses of its department, and report the 
same to the city auditor, .who shall thereupon certify whether or not 



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the appropriation is sufficient for the payment thereof, and if sufficient 
he shall so certify to the city treasurer, and thereupon the same shall 
become due and payable. The president and secretary of the board of 
education may draw upon said treasurer in favor of the persons 
entitled to payment thereof. The police commissioners shall assign 
one or more patrolmen to act as truant officers in enforcing the 
statutes in such case made and provided. 

§ 85 The board of apportionment and taxation shall appropriate 
a sufficient sum annually to enable the board of education to supply 
the public schools of said Bridgeport below the high school grade with 
free text-books and supplies, which sum shall not be less than one 
and one-quarter dollars per pupil in average daily attendance for the 
school year ending July first next preceding, according to the records 
of the board of education of said Bridgeport. Nothing in this resolu- 
tion shall be construed to prevent any child, parent, or guardian from 
purchasing, at his own expense, t6xt-books for use of pupils in the 
public schools, which text-books shall be provided at cost by the board 
of education of Bridgeport. 

Danbury 

Special Acts of 1905, Page 1070 

as amended by 

Special Acts of 1907, Page 249 

§ 7 On the first Tuesday of September in each year the board of 
finance shall hold a meeting, and at said meeting the town school com- 
mittee shall submit estimates of the moneys necessary to be ap- 
propriated for the maintenance of the schools of said town of Danbury 
for the year next ensuing, beginning the fifteenth day of September 
in each year, and shall at the same time submit to the said board of 
finance a statement of the expenditures of said town school committee 
for the preceding year, and the board of selectmen at said meeting 
shall submit estimates of the moneys necessary to be appropriated for 
all other expenses in said town of Danbury for the year next ensuing, 
beginning the fifteenth day of September in each year; said estimates 
shall be published once in a newspaper published in said town of 
Danbury, at least five days before said meeting. Said board of finance 
may adjourn said meeting from time to time, and at said meeting, 
or any adjournment thereof, shall make appropriations for the expenses 
of the said town of Danbury as aforesaid, for the year next ensuing, 
beginning the fifteenth day of September in each year; and said board, 
at its discretion, may make appropriations for paying off any part of 
the debt of the town, and also to provide a fund for any public 
improvement and shall classify the said appropriations under proper 
heads ; and said board shall lay such tax upon tlie grand list of said 
town, last completed, as it shall deem necessary, and may fix the time 
when such tax shall become due and payable. At said meeting, and 
at all adjournments thereof, said board of finance shall hear all parties 
who may desire to be heard relative to any of said estimates. Said 

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appropriations and the rate of taxation fixed by said board shall be 
filed in the town clerk's office in the town of Danbury on or before the 
last Monday of September next ensuing, and shall be published once 
in a newspaper published in said town on or before said last Monday 
of September, but said appropriations and the rate of taxation fixed by 
said board shall be submitted by the board of selectmen to the annual 
town meeting next to be held in said town of Danbury. Said annual 
town meeting shall have power to decrease the appropriations, or any 
item thereof, or the rate of taxation fixed by said board of finance, 
but in no case shall it have the power to increase the appropriations, 
or any item thereof, or the rate of taxation. The rate of taxation so 
reported by said board shall be final, and the appropriations recom- 
mended shall be the appropriations of the town of Danbury for the 
ensuing year, beginning September fifteenth as aforesaid, unless said 
rate of taxation or said appropriations be decreased by said annual 
town meeting, in which case the action of said town meeting shall be 
final. The total amount of appropriations for any one year shall not 
exceed the estimated income for that year, nor shall any board of 
selectmen or town school committee of said town, nor the town, in any 
special meeting, vote to incur any liability or expense, by contract or 
otherwise, for which said town shall be responsible, in excess of the 
appropriations estimated by said board. 

Derby 

Special Acts of 1893, Page 626, as amended by Special Acts of 1897, 

Page 1052 
§ 28 Said city shall be a consolidated school district; and said 
city shall be substituted for and take the place of the town of Derby 
in all meetings, matters, duties, powers, obligations, and proceedings 
required by law of or by the town of Derby in all matters concerning 
education, and shall act instead of said town; and all the powers, 
obligations, duties, rights, and property of the several school districts, 
and said town shall, with reference to education, be vested in and 
belong to said city, which shall be and act to all intents and purposes 
as such consolidated school district. There shall be in said city 
a board of education consisting of seven electors. One member of 
said board, to be known as the chairman of the board of education, 
shall be elected upon the general ticket with the mayor, and two mem- 
bers of said board shall be elected from each ward. The chairman 
of said board shall hold office for two years from the first Monday of 
January succeeding his election and until his successor is duly elected 
and qualified, and the remaining members of said board shall hold 
office for the term of four years from the first Monday of January 
next succeeding their election, and until their successors are duly 
elected and qualified. Each political party in each ward shall nomi- 
nate and place upon its ticket as many candidates for the office of 
member of the board of education as there shall be members of the 
board of education to be elected in such ward. The secretary of the 
meeting of each political party nominating candidates for aldermen 



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shall file in the office of the city clerk a list by him attested and signed 
of the members of the board of education from such ward nominated 
by said party at least thirty-six hours before the opening of the polls 
on election day. Any number of voters associated together and nomi- 
nating candidates for members of the board of education in any ward 
either directly or through a convention to which delegates shall be 
chosen shall be a political party within the meaning of this act; but 
nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to prevent any 
voter from erasing any name from the ticket to be voted or of insert- 
ing in the place of any name the name of any other person. In every 
election for members of the board of education in each ward, the 
political party having the largest total vote for both members of the 
board of education who shall have been nominated, and whose names 
shall have been filed as provided for in this section, shall be entitled 
to one of the members of the board of education to be elected, and the 
political party having the next largest total vote for both members 
of the board of education or shall have been so nominated, whose 
names have been so filed, shall be entitled to the other member 
of the board of education. The candidate of each such party in 
each ward receiving the highest number of votes as compared with 
the other candidates of his party shall be declared elected. In case 
of a tie vote between two or more candidates of the same political 
party, the candidate standing first on the list of nominees shall be 
declared elected. The two members of said board, elected from the 
first ward at the city election held on the first Monday of December, 
1898, shall be elected for four years, and two members of said board 
shall be elected from the said first ward quadrennially thereafter 
for the term of four years. The two members of said board elected 
from the second and third wards at the city election held on the 
first Monday of December, 1898, shall be elected for two years, and 
at the city election held on the first Monday of December, 1900, and 
quadrennially thereafter, two members ' of said board shall be elected 
from each of said wards for the term, of four years. Vacancies in 
said board shall be filled by the remaining members of said board 
until the same shall be filled by the voters of the ward in which such 
vacancy occurs, and in case it is filled by the voters of said ward it 
shall only be for the unexpired term. Vacancies shall be filled from 
the same political party and from the same ward in which the vacancy 
exists. Said board of education shall have all the powers now or 
hereafter vested in and shall perform all the duties now or hereafter 
imposed by law on the school committee, the selectmen of the town, 
and the board of school visitors, relative to schools and educational 
matters, and such board shall have the superintendence, management, 
and control of all matters concerning education, schools, and school 
property in said city. The police commissioner of said city shall as- 
sign one or more policemen to act ,as truant officers in enforcing the 
statutes of this state in such cases provided. The city clerk shall be 
the clerk of the- board of education of said city, and shall receive in 
addition to his present salary a salary of one hundred dollars per 
.annum for services as clerk of the board of education. Said board of 



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education shal audit and approve all bills for the ordinary current 
expenses of its department, and the said clerk shall thereupon certify 
whether or not the appropriation is suflficient for the payment thereof, 
and, if sufficient, he shall draw his order for the same upon the city 
treasurer in favor of the persons entitled to payment thereof. Said 
board of education shall submit to the mayor on or before the first 
Monday of October in each year, an estimate of the amount required 
for the support and maintenance of the public schools of said city for 
the ensuing fiscal year. 

§ 29 All the property of the town of Derb}', the borough of Bir- 
mingham, and the several school districts of said town and all rights of 
action and all securities of said municipalities and liens therefor, in- 
cluding liens for taxes or assessments due the town of Derby, the bor- 
ough of Birmingham, and the several school districts in said town, are 
hereby transferred to and vested in said city of Derby, and the city of 
Derby is hereby made liable for all the debts, dues, bonds, and obliga- 
tions of every kind and nature of the town of Derby, the borough of 
Birmingham, and the several school districts of said town, that are now 
due or may hereafter become due, and shall execute, abide by, and 
perform all of the duties and obligations and have and exercise all the 
rights of said town of Derby, the borough of Birmingham, and the 
several school districts of said town; and any creditor or person whom- 
soever having any claim or right of action arising out of any contract, 
obligation, or otherwise against said town, said borough, or said school 
districts, may enforce the same against the said city of Derby in the 
same manner as if said claim, right, or obligation had originally accrued 
against said city of Derby. 

Manchester 

Special Acts of 1895, Page .408 

Special Acts of 1897, Page 807 

Special Acts of 1907, Page 291 
§ I. That the territory and inhabitants within the limits of the 
Ninth school district of Manchester are hereby made a body politic and 
corporate by the name of the Ninth School District of Manchester, and 
shall have all the powers and privileges of school districts under the 
laws of this state. 

§ 2 The first meeting of said district shall be held in June, 1895, 
and shall be called by the present district committee. At said meeting 
shall be elected, by ballot, a committee consisting of five persons, whose 
terms of office shall begin July 15, 1895. One of this number shall be 
elected to hold office until the next annual meeting, two until the 
second annual meeting, and the remaining two until the third annual 
meeting thereafter. At each annual meeting of the said district, which 
shall be held in June, so^ many members of said committee shall be 
elected by ballot to hold office for tliree years as, together with those pre- 
viously elected to hold office beyond said annual meeting, will make the 
whole number five ; and all members of said committee shall be residents 
of said district. In case of vacancy caused by resignation, death, or 



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removal from the district, the remaining members of the committee 
shall fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting of said district, -when 
a member shall be elected for the unexpired term. The chairman of 
the district committee shall give due notice of all meetings of said dis- 
trict, and may call a special meeting thereof at any time, and shall call 
one on the written request of twenty legal voters of the district. 

§ 3 Said committee shall examine, employ, and dismiss teachers, 
shall determine the number and qualifications of the scholars to be ad- 
mitted into each school, provided that all children of school age within 
said district shall be admitted to some one of the schools maintained 
by said district, may prescribe the course of study to be followed in the 
schools, and shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of 
district committees and school visitors. The authority of the school 
visitors of the town in which said district is situated shall extend only 
to the remaining portion of said town. 

§ 4 In the town of Manchester, in each year, before the third 
Tuesday of June, the school visitors shall elect three of their number, 
and the committee chosen under the provisions of this resolution shall 
also elect three of its number, and the board of selectmen shall elect 
three of its members, and the nine persons shall be the joint board 
of the town of Manchester in lieu of that provided for in section 2234 
of the general statutes, and shall have the rights and perform the 
duties of said joint board prescribed in sections 2234, 2236, and 22^7 
of the general statutes. 

Naugatuck 
special Acts of 1895, Page 221 

§ 6 All burdens and all expenses imposed by law upon the town of 
Naugatuck, for the support of schools, shall hereafter be borne by 
said borough; and said borough shall hereafter perform all the duties, 
and have and exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges of and 
relative to said purposes and matters by law conferred upon said town; 
and all laws of the state imposing such duties, burdens, and expenses, 
and conferring such rights, powers, and privileges upon said town, are 
hereby amended, so as to be hereafter applicable to, and operative upon, 
said borough, except as is herein otherwise provided. 

§ 23 There shall be in said borough a board of education consist- 
ing of six electors of said borough. Of the members elected at the 
annual electors' meeting of said borough in May, 1895, two shall be 
elected for the term of three years, two for the term of two years, and 
two for the term of one year, respectively, and at said election in May, 
1895, no person shall vote for more than one person for each of the 
respective terms last above named. At the borough election held on 
the first Monday of May, 1896, and annually thereafter, two members 
of said board of education shall be elected for the term of three years, 
but no person shall vote for more than one member of said board at 
any election after May, 1895, except for persons to fill vacancies. Va- 
cancies in said board may be filled by the remaining members of said 
board until the same shall be filled by the voters thereof, but only for the 
unexpired term. Said board of education shall have all the powers now 



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or hereafter vested in, and shall perform all the duties now or hereafter 
imposed by law on the school visitors of the several towns in this state. 
The board of education and the warden and burgesses of said borough 
shall meet as a joint board on the second Tuesday in June in each year, 
and prepare a statement showing the estimated cost of each and all the 
public schools in the borough for the succeeding school year, and shall 
immediately thereafter notify the committees of the respective school dis- 
tricts of the several amounts so estimated; and said board of education 
shall present, at the annual borough meeting, a written or printed state- 
ment of the total cost of each and all of the public schools in said borough 
for the school year next preceding, and shall present an estimate of the 
cost of such schools for the current school year, at a meeting of the free- 
men of the borough held in July in each year; and said joint board shall 
hereafter do and perform all other acts and things that the school visit- 
ors and the selectmen of said town of Naugatuck have heretofore done 
and performed, and as may be hereafter required by law to be done and 
performed, in the several towns by the board of school visitors and 
selectmen. 

New Britain 

Special Acts of 1905, Page 932 

Schools 

§ 36 Said city shall be a consolidated school district and it shall 
be in place of the town of New Britain in all the duties, obligations, 
and other matters required by law of or by the town concerning educa- 
tion, and it shall act in such matters instead of the town. All the 
powers, obligations, rights, and property of the town, whether as a 
town or as a consolidated school district, shall be vested in and belong 
to said city. 

§ 37 There shall be a school committee of said city, with all the 
rights, duties, or powers concerning schools and educational matters 
now or hereafter vested in com«iittees of consolidated school districts 
and selectmen of towns by the laws of this state. Said committee shall 
serve without compensation, except as hereinafter provided, and the 
present school committee of the consolidated school district of the 
town of New Britain shall continue tg be the committee of the consol- 
idated school district of the city of New Britain until the successors 
of the present members of said committee shall be elected and qualified 
as herein provided. 

§ 38 Said committee may fix and determine the compensation to 
be paid to its officers. 

§ 39 Said committee shall audit and approve monthly all bills 
for all current expenses of their department and report the same to 
the city auditor, and he shall thereupon certify whether or not the 
appropriation available for said expenses is sufficient for the payment 
of the bills so approved, and, if sufficient, he shall so certify to the 
city treasurer, and thereupon said committee, by such official as they 
shall by their by-laws authorize, shall draw upon the treasurer in favor 



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of the person entitled to the payment of any such bills so approved, 
and the auditor shall keep a list of all bills so approved and filed with 
him. 

§ 40 All business relative to the schools of said consolidated school 
district of the city of New Britain heretofore transacted in town 
meetings shall hereafter be transacted in city meetings. 

§ 41 Said committee may make, change, amend, or alter any rules, 
regulations, or by-laws which they may deem necessary relative to the 
manner of conducting the meetings and business of the committee, to 
the conduct and government of schools, and to the duties, terms of 
office, mode of election, and compensation of all persons employed 
by said committee and its officers ; and said committee may at any 
time remove any officer thereof or any person employed by them. 

§ 42 Said committee shall make such estimates of its expenses for 
each year and keep such accounts of its expenditures as shall be 
prescribed by the ordinances of said city, and shall make a report of 
its doings annually in each year to the common council at the close 
of each school year. 

§ 43 When at any city meeting it shall be voted to erect any 
school building or enlarge any existing building, and the estimated 
expense thereof shall exceed five thousand dollars, an appropriation 
is made to meet the expense of erecting or enlarging such building, 
said meeting may, if warned for that purpose, vote to issue the bonds 
of said city for the purpose of raising money to defray the expenses 
of the erection or enlargement of such building, instead of levying a 
tax to meet the same. Said meeting shall fix a rate of interest on 
said bonds, the time and place of payment of principal and interest 
thereon, the amount and kind of bonds, the manner in which they 
shall be issued and sold, and the person or persons empowered to 
sign the same on behalf of said city; and may provide that a certain 
part of said bonds may become due and payable in each year, and may 
provide a sinking fund for the purpose of the payment of such bonds. 
The avails of the sale of such bonds shall be paid into the city treasury 
and credited to said school committee on the books of the treasurer 
for account of new school buildings, and no -portion of the money raised 
by the sale of bonds shall be used for any purpose or paid out of the 
treasury except for defraying the expense of the construction or 
enlargement of such school buildings and for furnishing and equipping 
such new buildings or extensions, and any balance remaining after 
payment of such bills shall be available only for the purpose of the 
construction of new or the extension or enlargement of existing school 
buildings. 

New Havent 

Special Acts of 1899, Page 419 

Department of Education 

§ 104 There shall be in said city a department of education, which 
shall have the care and management of all the affairs of the New Haven 



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city school district. After this act takes effect no meeting of the New 
Haven city school district shall be held for any purpose whatever. 

§ 105 Said department shall be under the control of a board of 
education of seven members who shall serve without compensation. The 
members of the board of education in office at the time this act takes 
effect shall hold their respective offices during the terms for which they 
were appointed unless sooner removed for cause according to the pro- 
visions of this act. On or before the first day of September, 1899, the 
mayor shall appoint two members of said board to serve four years 
from the third Monday in September next following; on or before the 
first day of September, 1900, the mayor shall appoint two members of 
said board to serve four years from the third Monday of September 
next following; on or before the first day of September, 1901, he shall 
appoint two members of said board to serve for four years from the 
third Monday of September next following; and on or before the first 
day of September, 1902, said Mayor shall appoint one member of said 
board to serve for a period of four years from the third Monda}"- of 
September next following. And on or before the first day of September 
in every year thereafter the mayor shall fill the vacancies about to occur 
in said board by appointing one or two members, as the case may be, 
to serve for four years from the third Moiiday in September following 
their appointment. Not more than four members of the same political 
party shall at any one time be members of said board. The mayor shall 
fill all vacancies caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, by appoint- 
ment, for the unexpired term. If the mayor shall refuse, fail, or neglect 
for thirty days to make an appointment to fill any vacancy that may 
occur in said board, either by death, resignation, removal, or otherwise, 
then the remaining members of said board may elect a suitable person 
to fill such vacancy. 

§ io5 The board of education shall appoint a superintendent of 
schools, and shall decide the number of principals, assistants, and 
teachers to be employed. It may appoint or employ a secretary, an in- 
spector of buildings, and such other officers and employes as may be 
necessary for the proper conduct of its business. It shall fix their terms 
of office and their salaries and prescribe their duties in each case, except 
as hereinafter provided. The officers and employes of the New Haven 
city school district, at the time of the taking effect of this act, shall 
retain their respective offices until their successors shall be chosen, and 
the rules and regulations of the board of education then in existence, 
not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in full force until repealed. 
Said board shall have the entire charge and direction of all the public 
schools of said district, and of the expenditure of all moneys appro- 
priated for the support of the same, and shall have charge of the con- 
struction, management, and repair of all school buildings, and shall 
possess all other powers and be subject to all of the general duties of 
boards of education, school committees, and school visitors in this 
state, so far as the same are consistent with the terms of this act. It 
shall annually choose a president from among its own members, make 
its own by-laws, keep a journal of its proceedings, define the duties of 
its officers and committees, and prescribe such rules and regulations for 



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discipline in said public schools as are not inconsistent with the laws of 
the state. 

§ 107 The superintendent of schools, if he has not held the office 
before, shall be appointed for one year, and if continued in office there- 
after may be appointed for a term of five years, and his salary shall not 
be reduced before the expiration of said term of five years. He shall 
not be removed during said term except by the vote of five members of 
the board of education. He shall appoint from those eligible under the 
rules of the board all principals, assistants, and teachers necessary to 
fill positions authorized by the board. He shall assign all principals, 
assistants, and teachers to their respective positions and reassign them 
or dismiss them from office at his discretion. He shall report at each 
meeting of the board all appointments, reassignments, and dismissals 
made by him since the previous meeting. Any appointment by the 
superintendent may be rejected by a vote of five members of the board. 
Any dismissal by the superintendent shall be final unless reversed by a 
vote of five members of the board at the meeting when such dismissal 
is reported. Notice of dismissal, on the part of the superintendent shall 
be given to the principal, assistant, or teacher, by the superintendent in 
writing at least one week before the meeting of the board when the 
superintendent reports such dismissal. He shall, with the approval of 
the board of education, prescribe the courses of study in all the schools, 
but the text-books to be used in said courses shall be designated by the 
board. The superintendent shall annually, at a date to be fixed by the 
board, submit to the board a full report of the work and condition of 
the schools during the previous year, with recommendations for the 
ensuing year, which report, when accepted by the board, shall form 
part of its report to the mayor. He shall also report, each month during 
the school year, to the board in writing, any changes made in the several 
courses of study, and what principals, assistants, and teachers he has 
assigned, reassigned, or dismissed, and shall furnish such additional 
information regarding the condition of the schools and the efficiency 
of the teaching force as may be required by the board. Said monthly 
reports shall be entered in a suitable book provided for the purpose, and 
shall be kept as a part of the records of the department. 

§ 108 The treasurer of the city shall receive the amount of school 
money to which the district is entitled from the school moneys of the 
state, frpm the town of New Haven, from state appropriations for 
school purposes, from gifts, and from the tax laid within the district for 
school purposes, which moneys shall be subject to the order of the 
board of education under such rules and regulations as the board of 
finance may from time to time establish. 

§ 109 The board of education shall submit to the board of finance 
of the city, at the time fixed by law for the submissioH of the estimates 
of the other departments of said city, a detailed estimate of its expenses 
for the next year for which the appropriations for city purposes are 
by law required to be made, specifying separately the sums needed for 
current and special expenses. 

§110 Said board of finance shall annually appropriate for the pur- 
poses of said district such amount as it may deem necessary for such 



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purposes. Appropriations made for school sites and the building and 
furnishing of new schoolhouses or additions to old ones shall be known 
as the special school fund, and it shall be the duty of the board of 
education to cause accurate accounts to be kept of its receipts and 
expenditures, distinguishing between those of a general and those of a 
special character. The board of finance shall levy, for school purposes, 
a tax upon all property within said district as now or hereafter con- 
stituted. 

§ III The board of education shall have power to maintain one or 
two high schools, as it may deem advisable, and a manual training 
school, and it shall determine the number and location of primary and 
grammar schools, but no expenditure involving any expense to the city 
of New Haven or the New Haven city school district for the purchase 
of ground or the erection of schoolhouses shall be made until a special 
appropriation for that purpose shall have been made. 

§ 112 Said board shall annually, at a date to be fixed by the mayor, 
transmit to the mayor a full report of its proceedings during the pre- 
vious year, together with a statement of its receipts and expenditures, 
specifying those on account of current expenses, and special expenses 
for land and buildings respectively, with such other details as the mayor 
may from time to time require. 

§ 113 Said board shall have power to divide the school district into 
as many sub-districts as it may deem advisable for the purpose of deter- 
mining the limits within which children may attend each school. 

§ 114 The city of New Haven, upon the recommendation of the 
board of education, shall have power to take sites for schoolhouses, or 
for the enlargement of sites already acquired, in the manner provided by 
law for the taking of land for public parks. 

§ 115 The title to all property, legal or equitable, owned by such 
district, or which may hereafter be acquired for school purposes in said 
district, is hereby vested in the board of education, as trustee for said 
New Haven city school district. 

§ 116 The Westville school district and the South school district 
are excepted from the provisions hereof. Whenever the electors of 
either the Westville school district or the South school district in the 
town and city of New Haven shall, by a majority vote in district meet- 
ing, in the manner provided for the admission of the different wards 
in section 218 of this act, express their desire to have their- district 
annexed to the New Haven city school district, said vote shall be certi- 
fied to the board of education of the New Haven city school district, 
and said board shall then, by a proper vote, declare the district in ques- 
tion to be a part of the New Haven city school district, and it shall 
thereafter be included in said New Haven city school district, and be 
governed by all the provisions of this act relating to said district. 

New London 

Special Acts of 1905, Pages 783, 784, 786, and 802. 

§ 9 At each annual meeting for the election of officers there shall 
be elected three school visitors for the term of three years and until 
their successors are chosen and qualified. 



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§ lo The mayor shall be, ex officio, a member of all committees 
of the court of common council, and of the board of water and sewer 
commissioners, and of the board of school visitors. 

§ 48 All the rights, powers, and duties relative to education, 
schools, school districts, -schoolhouses, school lands, school property, 
and school officers, of whatsoever kind, heretofore conferred or im- 
posed, or hereafter to be conferred or imposed upon towns, shall be 
and they are imposed and conferred, within the limits of the city of 
New London, upon said city, and upon the ofricers chosen by it for 
school purposes. 

§ 49 The school visitors of said city shall continue to be such 
school officers, and shall be charged with and perform all the duties 
of a school committee, and shall have all its powers, and shall act in 
the place and stead of such committee in all things; and the city of 
New London shall be substituted for and take the place of the town 
of New London in all matters concerning education, and shall act 
instead of said town in all of the same. 

§ 50 All the powers, obligatory duties, rights, and property of 
said city of New London, whether as such city, or as a union school 
district, in respect to education and schools, shall be vested in and 
belong to said city of New London, which shall be and act, for all 
intents and purposes, as such union school district, and all such powers 
and duties of said city shall be exercised and performed by said 
board of school visitors, unless otherwise ordered by said city. 

NORWALK 

Special Acts of 1901 

§ I The organization and formation of the high schools now exist- 
ing and being conducted in the town of Norwalk, and all acts hitherto 
performed in the management and conduct of said schools, are hereby 
validated and confirmed; but said schools shall hereafter be conducted 
under the head or title of the Norwalk High School, with one or more 
departments and courses of study; and for the purpose of maintaining 
such high school, the town of Norwalk may purchase, receive, hold, 
and convey any property, build and repair schoolhouses, lay taxes, and 
make contracts and adopt regulations for the management of such 
school. 

§ 2 The organization, conduct, and management of said school 
shall be under the direction of the board of school visitors of said town, 
and said board shall have in general the powers and duties of district 
committees and boards of school visitors under the laws of this state. 

§ 3 Nothing in this act shall prevent the town of Norwalk, at any 

annual town meeting, from directing its school visitors to discontinue 

said high school or to discontinue purchasing and furnishing, at the 

expense of the town, text-books and other school supplies used in said 

high school. 

Norwich 

Special Acts of 1897, Page 1058 

Falls District 

§ I That the third or Falls school district in the town of Norwich 



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be aad the same is hereby made and constituted a body politic and cor- 
poi-ate by the name of The Falls District. Said district shall receive 
its proportion of the public money, shall have entire control of all the 
schools within its limits, may establish and maintain schools of different 
grades, and shall have and enjoy all the powers and privileges at 
present enjoyed by school districts in this state. 

§ 2 There shall be elected at a meeting held within and for said 
The Falls District, on the Friday following the second Monday of June, 
1897, at 7.30 o'clock P. M., at the schoolhouse in said The Falls Dis- 
trict, a committee consisting of seven persons, voters in said district, 
by ballot and by a majority vote, three of the members of said com- 
mittee to be elected for one year from and after the date of said meeting, 
two members of said committee to be elected for two years from and after 
the date of said meeting, and two members of said committee to be 
elected for three years from and after the date of said meeting. The 
terms for which said members are to be elected shall be designated upon 
the ballot cast for the same, and they and their successors in office shall 
have the control and management of the schools in said district, examine, 
approve, employ, and dismiss teachers, prescribe the course of study to be 
pursued in the schools, and make such by-laws and rules, not inconsistent 
with the laws of this state, as they shall from time to time deem necessary, 
choose by ballot and by a majority vote of the said committee a presi- 
dent of said committee, who shall preside at its meetings when present, 
and at meetings of the district when present, and if the president of 
said committee shall be absent from any of said meetings then the 
presiding officer of said meetings shall be selected from any of the 
voters of said district present, at any of said annual and special meet- 
ings of said district, and shall choose in like manner a treasurer of said 
district from among members of said committee; and shall choose in 
like manner as aforesaid a clerk of said district; and said committee 
and their successors in office shall also have the power and authority 
to borrow money for school purposes upon the credit of said district 
when authorized by vote of said district. In case of vacancy caused 
by resignation, death, or removal from the district, the remaining 
members of said committee by a majority vote shall fill the vacancy 
until the next annual meeting of said district, when some person shall 
be elected by the said district for the unexpired term, and said com- 
mittee shall do and perform all such acts as are now by law devolved 
upon the district committee of said third school district. The com- 
pensation of all of the officers and committees shall be determined by a 
vote of the district. 

§ 3 Said committee shall hold its regular meetings on the first 
Monday of each month, and special meetings may be called by the 
president upon three days' notice thereof, and shall be called by him 
upon the written application of four members of the committee. 

§ 4 The annual meeting of said The Falls District shall be held 
on the Friday after the second Monday of June in each year, at which 
meeting said district shall elect, by ballot and by a majority vote of the 
qualified electors of the district present and voting, two members of the 
said committee for a term of three years, to fill the places of the mem- 



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bers whose terms of office shall have expired; and shall elect in the 
manner hereinbefore provided a member or members to fill the unex- 
pired term of any member or members of said committee who shall 
have resigned, died, or moved out of the district, as provided by section 
two of this charter, and a collector of taxes. The annual report of the 
committee and of the district treasurer shall be submitted to said 
meeting. 

§ 5 There shall also be elected at each annual meeting for the 
election of the said committee, in addition to the number specified in 
section four, by a majority vote, by ballot, a member of said committee 
who shall hold office for one year from and after the date of his said 
election. 

§ 6 The annual tax meeting of The Falls District shall be held on 
the Friday following the second Monday of June in each year, and the 
special meetings of the district may be called by the said committee as 
occasion maj^ require, and shall be called on application in writing of 
fifteen legal voters of said district. 

§ 7 The district treasurer and the collector of taxes shall each give 
a bond to the satisfaction of a committee of three voters of said dis- 
trict, elected by the voters of said district at its annual meeting for 
the purposes mentioned in this section, conditioned for the faithful 
performance of their respective duties, and for an accounting of all 
moneys that may be received by either of them. 

Special Acts of 1899, Page 85 
Greeneville School District 

§ I That the Greeneville school district in the town of Norwich 
be and is hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate by 
the name of The Greeneville School District. 

§ 2 Said The Greeneville School District shall receive its pro- 
portionate share of the public money; shall have entire and exclusive 
control of all the public schools within the limits of said district; may 
establish, maintain, and manage schools of different grades therein, and 
shall have and may exercise all the powers and privileges at present 
enjoyed by school districts in this state. 

§ 3 The first meeting of said corporation shall be held in the brick 
schoolhouse in said district on the Friday next following the third 
Monday of June, 1899, at half-past seven o'clock in the evening, and 
there shall be held a regular annual meeting of said corporation at the 
same place and hour on the Friday next following the third Monday 
of each June thereafter. 

§ 4 Notice of said first meeting, as well as of all regular and special 
meetings, shall be given by publishing a notice thereof once in a daily 
newspaper published in the said town of Norwich, not less than five 
days and not more than ten days prior to such meeting, and also by 
posting a copy of such notice on the outside of the main entrance door 
of said schoolhouse, and a similar copy on the public signpost nearest 
to said schoolhouse at least five days prior to the date of such meeting. 
The notice of said first meeting shall be signed and given by the present 



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district committee of said district, and notice of all other meetings shall 
be signed and given by the board of education of said corporation. The 
notice of every special meeting shall state the purpose of such meeting. 
Special meetings may be called and held as occasion may require and 
shall be called by the said board upon the written request of not less 
than twenty of the legal voters residing in said district. 

§ 5 All the legal voters of said district shall be entitled to vote at all 
meetings of said corporation and no other person shall have the right 
to vote or otherwise to participate in said meetings. 

§ 6 The officers of said corporation shall be a board of education 
consisting of six persons, a clerk, a treasurer, a collector, and an auditor, 
each of whom must be a legal voter residing in said district. 

§ 7 All of said officers shall be elected by ballot, and a majority of 
the lawful ballots cast shall be requisite to elect. 

§ 8 At said first meeting there shall be chosen two members of said 
board of education to serve for one year from the date of said meeting, 
two to serve for two years from said date, and two to serve for three 
years from said date, and the ballots for members of said board cast at 
said first meeting shall state the number of years for which each mem- 
ber of said board shall serve. At each annual meeting thereafter there 
shall be elected two members of said board to serve for three years. 
At said first meeting there shall also be elected a clerk, a treasurer, a 
collector, and an auditor, each to serve for one year from the date of said 
meeting; and at each annual meeting thereafter there shall be chosen 
a clerk, a treasurer, a collector, and an auditor, each for one year from 
date of election and until their successors are elected and qualified. 

§ 9 The said board of education shall have the entire and exclusive 
control, supervision, and management of all public schools within the 
limits of said school district; and shall possess, enjoy, and exercise all 
the powers, and shall perform all the duties of school district committees 
and of school visitors ; and the school visitors of said town of Norwich 
shall cease to have and to exercise any authority in said district when 
this resolution takes effect. 

§ 10 Said board of education shall also have the power to make and 
to enforce proper rules and by-laws for its own government, and for the 
management of said corporation and of its afifairs ; and to amend, alter, 
or suspend the same ; and to choose such officers of said board as it may 
deem requisite, including a president thereof. 

§ II The president of said board shall preside at all the meetings 
thereof, as well as at all meetings of said corporation, but in case the 
president is absent, or when there is a vacancy in his office, his duties 
shall be performed by such other member of said board as shall be 
designated by vote of the remaining members of said board ; provided, 
that at the said first meeting of said corporation the legal voters present 
shall elect viva voce the presiding officer of said first meeting. 

§ 12 The auditor shall duly examine all books, accounts, and 
vouchers of said corporation and of its officers, shall make a true and full 
report of his examinations and doings, when and as required by the rules 
and by-laws adopted by said board ; and shall perform such other duties 
as said board may impose on him. The other officers shall discharge 



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the duties, and shall have and exercise the powers and privileges, of the 
corresponding officers of said school district, as constituted before the 
creation of said corporation. 

§ 13 Said board shall hold meetings for the transaction of business 
at such times and places as shall be determined by said board, and a 
majority of the members thereof shall constitute a quorum for the 
transaction of all proper business. 

§ 14 Said board shall have full and exclusive power to examine, 
employ, and dismiss teachers for the public schools in said district, 
and also to perform all the duties and to exercise all the powers and 
privileges now possessed and enjoyed by school district committees, 
in this state. 

§ 15 Said board of education shall have power to borrow money 
for the legitimate needs of said corporation, upon the credit of said 
corporation, and to execute and negotiate its suitable obligations there- 
for. 

§ 16 The treasurer and collector shall each furnish a bond, with 
surety or sureties satisfactory to said board and conditioned for the 
faithful performance of their respective duties; and no person shall 
enter upon the duties of the office of either treasurer or collector until 
his bond shall have been accepted and approved by said board. 

§ 17 Said board shall fix the compensation of all officers and of 
all other employes of said corporation. 

§ 18 At each annual' meeting after June 23, 1899, there shall be 
presented written reports of the treasurer and the board of education 
for the preceding twelve months, and a written estimate by said board 
of the receipts and expenses of the twelve months following. 

§ 19 Any vacancy in any of said offices shall be filled by said board, 
or the remaining members thereof, until the next annual meeting. 

§ 20 This act shall take effect on the twenty-third day of June, 
1899, on the organization of the first meeting of said corporation as 
provided in said act; and the terms of all the present officers of The 
Greeneville School District shall terminate at the time this^ act takes 
effect as herein provided; and the report of the officers of said district 
shall be made at said first meeting. 

Orange 
Special Acts of 1899, Page 269 
Union School District of Orange 

§ I The Union School District of the town of Orange may, at its 
next annual meeting, vote upon the question of whether or not said 
district will adopt the form of school government provided for in sec- 
tions 2130, 2131, 2132, 2133, and 2134 of the general statutes, and if a 
majority of the voters of said district shall at said meeting vote in 
favor of adopting said form of government, then the officers of said 
district elected at said annual meeting shall hold office until the third 
Monday of September, 1899. 

§ 2 If said district shall vote to adopt said form of government, 
then said district shall hold its annual meeting on the third Monday of 



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September, 1899, and annually thereafter; and at the annual ineeting 
held on the third Monday of September, 1899, elect the officers provided 
for in said section 2130 of the general statutes, and shall elect two 
members of a board of education to serve for one year, two members to 
serve for two years, and two members to serve for three years, and 
annually thereafter two members to serve for three years, as provided 
in said statutes. 

§ 3 Upon said district voting as herein provided, and upon the 
election of officers of said district as provided in section two, said dis- 
trict and said officers shall have all the powers, rights, and duties, and 
be subject to all the obligations imposed upon school districts so 
organized as provided in sections 2130, 2 131, 2132, 2133, and 2134 of the 
general statutes, and all other acts relating to school districts so far as 
the same are applicable ; and in case of a vacancy occurring in any office, 
the board of education may fill the same till the next annual meeting. 

§ 4 The adoption by said district of said form of government shall 
in no manner affect the rights, property, or obligations of said school 
district, but the same shall continue in the same manner as if this act 
had not been passed, and shall be administered, adjusted, and liquidated 
by said district and by the officers elected in pursuance of this act, in 
lieu of the officers now adm.inistering the same, and all debts due said 
district and all obligations due. from said district shall be collected and 
paid by said district and by the officers elected hereunder, to the same 
extent as if this act had not been passed. 

§ 5 If said district shall vote to adopt said form of government, 
the school visitors of the town of Orange shall only have jurisdiction 
in the remaining portion of the town after the third Monday of Sep- 
tember, 1899. 

§ 6 This act shall take effect from its passage. 

Waterbury 
Special Acts of 1899, Page 498 

§ I T«4ie territorial limits of the body politic and corporate existing 
under the name of the city of Waterbury shall hereafter include all 
land and territory situated within the limits of the Center school dis- 
trict of Waterbury as now or hereafter defined. 

§ 2 There shall be in the city of Waterbury a department of educa- 
tion which shall have the care and management of all the property and 
affairs of the Center school district of Waterbury. After this act shall 
take effect no meeting of said Center school district shall be held for 
any purpose whatever. 

§ 3 Said department shall be under the control of the board of 
education, consisting of the mayor, who shall be ex officio chairman, and 
seven members, who shall be elected biennially at the meetings of said 
city for the election of officers; and for this purpose separate ballots 
shall be provided in the several voting places in said city. The terms 
of office of said members shall begin on the first Monday of January 
next following their election, and the provisions of the charter of said 
city in relation to the powers and duties of city officers shall apply to 
said members. 



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§ 4 No person shall vote for more than four members of the board 
of education. If any ballot found in said boxes shall have the names 
of more than four persons for members of said board, the first four 
names only shall be counted, and the seven persons of the whole number 
voted for and counted as aforesaid having the highest number of votes 
shall be declared elected members of the board of education of said 
city. In case a vacancy shall Qccur in said board by reason • of a tie 
vote, or death, resignation, or removal, or any other cause, such vacancy 
may be filled in the manner now provided for filling vacancies in other 
city offices. 

§ 5 The members of said board of education shall receive such 
compensation for their services as shall be prescribed by the board of 
aldermen. 

§ 6 Said board shall hold regular meetings every month, and 
special meetings at such times as it may appoint or the mayor may call. 
Except in case of a tie, the -mayor shall have no vote in any meeting. 

§ 7 The board of education shall appoint a superintendent of 
schools, and shall decide the number of principals, assistants, and teach- 
ers to be employed. It may appoint or employ a clerk, an inspector of 
buildings, and such other officers and employes as may be necessary 
for the proper conduct of its business. It shall fix their salaries, sub- 
ject to the approval of the board of finance, and prescribe their terms 
of office, and their duties, in each case, except as hereinafter provided. 
The officers and employes of the Center school district, at the time 
when this act shall take effect, shall retain their respective offices until 
their successors shall be chosen and duly qualified, and the rules and 
regulations of the board of education and district committee then in 
existence, not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in full force until 
repealed. The board of education herein provided for shall have the 
entire charge and direction of all the public schools of said district, 
and of the expenditure of all moneys appropriated for the support of 
the same, and shall have power to construct, manage, and repair all 
school buildings, and shall possess all other powers and be subject to 
all of the general duties of boards of education, school committees, 
and school visitors in this state, so far as the same are consistent with 
the terms of this act. It shall make its own by-laws, keep a journal of 
its proceedings, define the duties of its officers and committees, and pre- 
scribe such rules and regulations for discipline in the said public schools 
as are not inconsistent with the laws of the state. 

§ 8 The superintendent of schools shall be appointed for the term 
of two years, and his salary shall not be increased or decreased during 
any term except in the manner provided by the charter of said city. 
He shall not be removed during said term except by the vote of five 
members of the board of education. He shall appoint from those 
eligible under the rules of the board all principals, assistants, and 
teachers necessary to fill positions authorized by the board. He shall 
assign all principals, assistants, and teachers to their respective posi- 
tions, and reassign them or dismiss them from office at his discretion. 
He shall report at each meeting of the board all appointments, reassign- 
ments, and dismissals made by him since the previous meeting. Any 



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appointment by the superintendent may be rejected by a vote of the 
majority of the board. Any dismissal by the superintendent shall be 
final unless reversed by a vote of a majority of the board at the meeting 
when such dismissal is reported. Notice of dismissal on the part of 
the superintendent shall be given to the principal, assistant, or teacher 
by the superintendent in writing at least one week before the meeting 
of the board when the superintendent reports such dismissal. He shall, 
with the approval of the board of education, prescribe the course of 
study in all the schools, but the text-books to be used in said courses 
shall be designated by the board. The superintendent shall annually, 
at a date to be fixed by the board, submit to the board a full report of 
the work and condition of the schools during the previous year, with 
recommendations for the ensuing year, which report, when accepted by 
the board, shall form part of its report to the mayor. He shall also 
report, each month during the school year, to the board in writing, any 
changes made in the course of study, ancf what principals, assistants, 
and teachers he has assigned, reassigned, or dismissed, and shall fur- 
nish such additional information regarding the condition of the schools 
and the efficiency of the teaching force as may be required by the 
board. Said monthly reports shall be entered in a suitable book pro- 
vided for that purpose, and shall be kept as part of the records of the 
department. 

§ 9 The treasurer of the city shall receive the amount of school 
money to which the district is entitled from the school moneys of the 
state, from the town of Waterbury, from state appropriations for school 
purposes, from gifts, and from the tax laid within the district for school 
purposes, which moneys shall be subject to the order of the board of 
education under such rules and regulations as the board of finance may 
from time to time establish. 

§ ID The board of education shall submit to the board of finance 
of the city, at the time fixed by law for the submission of the estimates 
of the other departments of said city, a detailed estimate of its ex- 
penses for the next year for which the appropriations for city purposes 
are by law required to be made, specifying separately the sums needed 
for current and special expenses. 

§ II The provisions of sections 92 and 93 of the charter of the city 
of Waterbury shall apply to such estimates, and to all taxes and appro- 
priations based thereon; but no tax shall be laid upon any property 
lying outside of the present limits of the city of Waterbury and within 
the limits of said city as hereby established at a rate exceeding one-half 
of the rate of taxation upon property lying within the present limits 
of said city. 

§ 12 The board of education shall annually, at a date fixed by the 
mayor, transmit to the mayor a full report of its proceedings during 
the previous year, together with a statement of its receipts and ex- 
penditures, specifying those on account of current expenses and special 
expenses for land and buildings respectively, with such other details as 
the mayor may from time to time require. 

§ 13 Said board shall have power to divide the school district into 
as many sub-districts as it may deem advisable, for the purpose of 
determining the limits within which children may attend each school. 



115 

§ 14 The city of Waterbury, upon the recommendation of the 
board of education, shall have power to take sites for schoolhouses, or 
for the enlargement of sites already acquired, in the manner provided by 
law for taking of land for public parks. 

§ 15 The title to all property, legal or equitable, owned by said dis- 
trict, or which may hereafter be acquired for school purposes in said 
district, is hereby vested in the board of education, as trustee for said 
Center school district. 

§ 16 Nothing in this act shall be construed to restrict the right of 
any woman to vote at any meeting held for the purpose of choosing 
any officer of schools, or for any educational purpose under the general 
or special laws of this state, and nothing herein shall confer upon any 
woman the right to vote for the mayor of said city of Waterbury or for 
any other city officer. 

Amending the Charter of the City of Waterbury and Consolidating 
the Governments of the Town and City of Waterbury 
Special Acts of 1901, Page 858. 

§ 10 All liabilities, debts, and obligatiotis owing on said tirst Mon- 
day of January, 1902, from or by the city or Center school district of 
Waterbury, shall remain a liability, debt, and obligation upon the per- 
sons and property within the second district hereinbefore described, and 
any indebtedness, bonded, or otherwise, thereafter incurred for any 
purposes within said second district not in this act provided to be paid 
by said first district, including disposal of sewage, shall be assumed 
solely by the said second district. 

§ II The several school districts of the town of Waterbury, out- 
side of said second district, shall continue to remain as school districts 
with the same territorial limits, rights, powers, and obligations as now 
existing with the exception as set forth in section seven of this act, and 
the obligations now imposed upon the town of Waterbury, with respect 
to the support of schools outside of said second district, are hereby 
imposed upon said city of Waterbury and shall be an expense incurred 
by and chargeable to the first district hereinbefore described. 

§ 12 Whenever twenty-five electors residing in any one of said 
school districts shall petition the board of aldermen of said city that 
the school district within which they reside may be brought under the 
full jurisdiction of the second district heretofore described, so that the 
persons and property within said school district may secure from the 
government of said city the same benefits and be subject to the same 
obligations as persons and property within said second district, said 
board of aldermen, after due hearing, shall fix a day on which all legal 
voters residing within the limits of said school district may vote upon 
the question whether they are in favor of or opposed to said petition. 
And if on said day a majority of the votes cast within said school dis- 
trict shall be found in favor of having said petition granted, said board 
of aldermen shall grant the same and make an order that the said school 
district, together with its inhabitants and property, shall thereafter be 
and remain under the full jurisdiction of the said second .district, and 



ii6 

such order shall have the same force and effect as if it formed a part 
of this act, and said school district shall then be deemed to have been 
abolished as a school district. 

§ 13 The board of education of said city shall, on and after the 
first Monday of January, 1902, have and possess all of the powers and 
duties vested in town school visitors by the general statutes. Said 
board shall have the power, at its discretion, of admitting any child 
resident in any of the several school districts outside of said second 
taxation district to any graded school within said second district, and 
shall admit any such child to the high school within said district, if 
such child shall be qualified for admission thereto, upon payment of 
such annual fee as may be determined upon by said board of education. 
Such fee shall be paid by said city and be an expense of and chargeable 
to the said first taxation district, provided, that not more than thirty 
dollars shall be paid for each scholar attending such schools from any 
of said several school districts. 

Windham 

Providing for the Erection of a Building for the State Normal School 

at Willimantic and Making an Appropriation Therefor 

Special Acts of 1907, Page 580 

§ 1 That the state board of education is hereby authorized to 
cause to be constructed an additional building for the state normal 
school at Willimantic, said building to be used for the purposes of 
model and practice schools. 

§ 2 The sum of thirty-three thousand three hundred thirty-three 
and thirty-three one-hundredths dollars, or so much thereof as may 
be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, together with moneys ap- 
propriated by the town of Windham as hereinafter provided, for the 
purpose of constructing and furnishing said building; and the comp- 
troller shall draw his orders on the treasurer in favor of the state 
board of education, from time to time, for such sums as it shall 
require for said purpose. Said board shall, as often as once in every 
three months, file vouchers with the comptroller for all moneys ex- 
pended under the provisions of this resolution. 

§ 3 The state board of education shall not expend any money 
under the provisions of this resolution for said building until, the 
town of Windham shall have conveyed, free of expense, to the state, 
a site which shall be satisfactory to said board, and shall have entered 
into a contract with said board to furnish model and practice schools 
in connection with the training department of said normal school, the 
terms of said contract to be satisfactory to said board, and shall have 
voted to pay one-third of the cost of the construction and furnishing 
of said building and made the necessary appropriation therefor. 

§ 4 In case said state board of education shall proceed to erect 
said building said town of Windham shall, on or before the first day of 
July, 1908, or sooner upon request of said board, pay to the state 



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treasurer, for the payment of one-third of the cost of said building, 
the sum of sixteen thousand six hundred sixty-six and sixty-seven 
one-hundredths dollars, and, if the construction and furnishing of said 
building shall be found to have cost less than fifty thousand dollars, 
the said treasurer shall return to said town of Windham one-third of 
the balance of said sum of fifty thousand dollars remaining unexpended 
for said purpose. Said town of Windham is hereby authorized to 
appropriate a sum sufficient to pay for said site and said one-third 
of the cost of said building, at a meeting especially warned and held 
for the purpose, and said town is also authorized to convey said site 
to the state and to make and carry out the contract provided for in 
section three of this resolution. 

§ 5 No member of said board of education shall receive any 
compensation for services rendered in connection with the construction 
of said building. 



INDEX 



Abolition of school districts, 

vote how taken, 
repeal of vote, 
Academy, endowed, 

incorporated, 

State Board of Education may examine 

may approve for high school 
scholars, 
Accounts, of State Board of Education, 

agents, .... 
normal schools. 
State aid to libraries, . 
Acting School Visitor, appointment of, . 

not necessarily a member of the Board 
compensation , 
duties, 

in districts having board of education, 
to certify schools kept according to law, 
to certify attendance in non-local high 
schools to State Board of 

Education, 
names of children for con- 
veyance grant, 
to purchase text-books for children when 

parents are unable, 
to certify cost of text books to selectmen 
or town school committee, 

town treasurer to pay bill, . 

Age, of school attendance, . 

employment, 

enumeration, 

leaving school, 

penalty for false statement concerning, 

Agents, State Board of Education, to secure observance of laws 

relating to instruction of 
children, . 

term of ofifice, 
remuneration, 
accounts audited by 
Comptroller, 
to enforce attendance laws, 
to enforce child labor law, . 
to act as superintendents, . 
to request hearing if school 
accommodations not fur- 
ni^ed. 



Section 

189, 190 

190 

191 

71 

71 

71 

71 
9 

7 

15 
8 

115 
116 

116, 117 

"5 
62, 116 

235 



70 



74 



47 





47 


17. 


38 


23. 


24 




218 




19 




22 




6 


7, 


27 


7, 


27 


7, 


27 


7, 


27 


7. 


27 




133 



119 



Section 
Agents, State Board of Education, to inspect private school reg- 
isters, ... 20 
to investigate age of children , 2 5 
to set as supervisors, . 133 
to grant leaving certificates, ig 
to grant age certificates to 

foreign born children, 24 

Alcohol, effects of taught, ...... 43 

in normal schools, ... 43 

examination in, ..... iiS, 210 

Almshouse, not exempt from taxation, .... 179 

Ansonia, special act relating to schools, .... page 94 

Apparatus, state grant for, . . . . . . 216 

to be approved by school visitors or tovi^n school 

committee, ...... 121, 216 

districts may purchase, . . . . 137 

to temporary homes, . . . . . 91 

Appeal to Superior Court, in proceedings for taking land for 

schoolhouse site, . . . 175, 176 

to alter school districts , . . 141 

to define boundary lines, . . 139 

to divide district property, . . 198 

Appointment of town school officers, .... 97 

Appraisement of district property at time of consolidation, . 197, 198 

Apportionment of money to districts, .... 233 

lying in two or more towns, 123, 242 

Appropriation, for normal schools, . . . . . 12 

public schools, . . . . .122, 223 

school libraries, . . , . 216 

teachers' meetings, . „ . . . 2 

^evening schools, .... 79 

state distribution of, . . . . 122, 223 

Arbor and Bird DajT-, to be observed by schools, . . . 51 

Arrest of truant boys, . . . . . . 31 

girls, . . . . . .36 

Assessment of property by school districts, . . . 178-184 

Attendance, age of, . . . . . . . 17 

certificates of , . . . . . . 24 

evidence of , . . . . . . 24 

at private schools, ..... 20 

possible, ...... 38 

excuses for non-attendance, . . . . 17, 18 

failure, penalty, . . . . 18 

complaint, all offenses in same, . 18 

suspension of sentence, . . 18 
penalty, not incurred when — 

child lacks clothing, . 18 
child's mental or physical 
condition renders at- 
tendance inexpedient, . 18 



I20 



Attendance, when compulsory for children between 14 and 16, . 

at evening schools, 
Average attendance, grant, ...... 

to be reported to State Board of Education , 
grant, condition of, . 

method of payment, . 
Ballot, officers voted for on each, . 

what to be placed in envelope, 

officers to be chosen by, . . . .97, no, 

what matters decided by, . . . .156, 

Ballot-box, provided for women's votes, . 

vote on consolidation, . 
Bird day, . . . . 

Blanks, form prescribed by State Board of Education, . Note 
Board of education, in districts formerly school societies, 
powers and duties, . 
shall report to State Board of Education, 
shall send returns and certificates to Comp 
troller, .... 

may admit to school children over four, 
may appoint superintendent, 
fix salary, 
may organize supervision district, . 
may require children to be vaccinated, 
shall preserve books and documents, 
may administer oath, 

may purchase and loan text-books to pupils, 
may appoint acting visitor, not of their 

own number, 
may es;^mine teachers, 
shall hear parents when school accommo 

dations not furnished, 
must certify average number attending 

evening schools to Comptroller, 
must report to State Board of Education 

concerning evening schools, 
may petition for superintendent, . 
may prescribe supplementary books, 
two-thirds vote of, to change text-books, 
may superintend evening schools, . 
may grant certificates to teachers, 
may revoke teachers' certificates, . 
may sign teachers' certificates, 
may appoint school physician, 
may appoint acting visitor (see Acting 
Visitors), .... 

may employ teachers when authorized, 

of music, 
secretary shall certify salary of superin 
tendent to State Board of Education, 



Section 

17, 19 

78 

224 

226 

224 

226 

270 

371 

160, 161 

157. 190 

278 

190 

51 

:, page 4 

60 

62 

62 

62 

38 
129 
129 
130 
126 
127 
128 

45 

116 
118 

48 

79 

79 
133 
125 
125 

77 
118 
118 
210 

283. 

115 

119, 213 

42 

13 



121 



Section 



at 



Board of Education, State, constitution of, 
appointment, 
vacancies, 
how filled, 
expenses of, 
quorum, 
may appoint secretary, 

chief clerk, 
may hire cleriis, 
duties and powers, 
superintend Normal Schools, 
enforce laws relating to attendance 

school, 
enforce laws relating to employment of 

children , 
examine teachers, 
examine teachers for schools in County 

Homes, 
expend sum appropriated for Normal 

Schools, 
appoint acting visitor or visitors for County 

Homes, .... 
keep account of State aid to libraries, 
appoint a Public Library Committee, 
make annual report, . 
order sanitary changes in schoolhouses, 
relieve towns from maintaining evening 

schools, .... 
render accounts to Comptroller, 
control educational interests of state, 
direct books to be used, 
prescribe form of registers, . 
expend necessary sum to perform duties, 
prepare outline of citizenship, 
determine number of pupils in Normal 

Schools, . ... 

apply for high school grant, 
apply for high school conveyance grant, 
apply for average attendance grant, 
appoint agents, ... 

establish model schools at Normal Schools 
hold teachers' meetings, 
approve high schools, 
make rtdes for county homes, 
to be furnished with number and names of 

pupils attending high schools in towns 

other than those in which they reside, . 
test eyesight, ..... 
appoint an acting visitor at County Home 

schools, . . . . . 



Note I, page 3 



I, 90 
12 

7. 27 

7. 2 
4 

90 

15 

90 
8 

262 
2 

280 

81 

8,9 
2 
2 
2 
9 
3, 41 

13 
70 

74 
226 

6, 7, 27 

16 

2 

68 

90 



70 

5 



90 



122 



Board of Education, appoint agent to be superintendent, 

qualifications, 
salary, 
grant certificates to teachers, 
Board of Relief, how constituted, .... 

school visitors (see Visitors). 
Bonds, to be given by treasurer and collector of district. 
Books and apparatus — 

shall be approved by town school committee, 
by school visitors, 
Boundary lines of districts, . 

settlement of, 
record of. 
Boys, Connecticut School for. 
Branches taught in public schools, . 
evening schools, 
in which teachers must be examined, 
Bridgeport, special act relating to schools, 
Buildings, injuries to, 

Care and reformation of children, . 
for what children intended, 
commitment of children to homes, 
boys, Connecticut school for, 

when boy is under ten years of age. 
United States court may commit boys, 
boys to remain at school how long, . 
• girls, Connecticut Industrial school for, . 
appeals, 
fees, . 
costs, . 
Certificates, age, 

penalty for false 
who may issue. 
State board of education may investigate, 
age may be recorded, 
parent shall make oath to age of child, 
fee for recording, .... 
must be kept on file by employer, 
when inconsistent record on school register, 
when child has not attended school in this state 
state board of education may grant, 
parents shall make oath to facts, 
parent shall exhibit evidence, 
child not born in the United States, 
legal protection to employer. 
Certificates, teachers, .... 

given by school visitors, 
by State Board of Education, 
must be accepted by school officers, 



Section 
133 
133 
133 
211 
181 

166 

121 

121 

138, 139 

139 

138 

297-300 

38 

76 

118 

page 96 
311 

295-308 

295 

296 

297-300 

298 

299 

300 

301-304 

305 

306 

307 

24 

22 

24 

25 
24 

24 

24 

24 

25 

24, 25 

25 

25 

25 

24 

26 

210, 212 

118, 210 

4, 211 

4 



12- 



Certificates, may be revoked, . . . 67, 118, 

of high schools, 
must be obtained by teacher, 
leaving, . , 

Children, care and reformation of, . 
instruction of , . 

to be educated, at home or at school, 
to attend school regularlj' and constantly when not 

employed, 
under fourteen, employment of, 
under fourteen, not to be employed in factories and 
stores, ...... 

certificate of age of , . 

enumeration of , . . . 

temporaril)?^ residing in district, . 
admission of non-resident to district schools, . 
in districts where there is no school, provision for, 
dependent and neglected, provision for, 
imbecile, provision for, .... 

not to be employed in exhibitions, etc. , 
not allowed in pool rooms, 
City district, tax in, . . _ . 

Citizenship, duties of, taught, .... 

outline to be prepared by State Board of Education 
Classification of school visitors, 

town school committee, . 
Clerk of school district, compensation, 
election of, 
term of office, 
must be sworn, 
duties of, . . . .152 

to determine place of meeting when no 
committee, .... 

to give notice of meeting when no com- 
mittee, ..... 

to enumerate children if committee fail, 
to report names of school officers to 

school visitors, 
if district is in two towns notice must be 
sent to both secretaries, 

penalty for failure to comply, 
to furnish access to records, 
Clothing, lack of, excuse for non-attendance. 
Collector, election, 

duties of , . 
to give bonds, 
term of office. 
Committee, high school, see high schools, 
town, see School Committee, 
district, see District Committee. 



Section 

210, 211 

67 

212 

19 
295-308 

17 

17 

^7 
21 

23 
25 

218, 219 
218 
172 
239 
295 
308 

309 
318 
237 

3> 41 

3. 41 

106 

193 
158 
160 
160 
160 
155. 165 

151 

152 
218 

163 

163 
163 
167 
18 
160 
165 
166 
160 



I2<4 



Committee, in consolidated districts, see town School Committee, 
library, ....... 

supervision district, see Supervision. 
Complaints, non-attendance, . . . . . 

Comptroller, to audit expenses of State Board of Education, . 
accounts of state library money, . 
accounts of normal schools, 
accounts of agents, 
accounts of public libraries, 
draw orders in favor of districts having a board 
of education, . . . . . 

to distribute income of school fund and annual 
state appropriation, . . . . 

to draw orders in favor of town supporting evening 
schools, ...... 

to draw order for high school tuition fees, . 
to draw order for conveyance grant, 
to withhold school dividend tf hygiene not taught, 
may make deduction from public money, . 
sue for misapplied money, 
deduct forfeiture, 
returns to, . 

Compulsory education. 
Condemnation of land for school purposes. 
Consolidation of districts, . 

towns may vote. 



Section 
192 



18 
9 



by ballot, 
at annual meeting, 
form of ballot, 
method of procedure, 
vote takes effect when, 
pay expenses of schools, 
committee, first, 

subsequent, 
election, 
qualifications, . 
minority representation, 
term of office, . 
number, how determined, 
classification, 
powers and duties, 
adjustment of property and debts, 
appraisement, . 
payment, . • . 

permanent funds, management of, 
joint districts, notice of abolition of, 
mode of paying debts, 

collecting taxes, 
libraries, school, 
expenses, how paid. 



15 

27 

269 

63 
223 

79 
70 

74 

44 

227 

228 

114 

122, 220, 223 

17 
209 (see 174-177) 
189 
189 
190 
190 
190 
190 
191 
201 
192 

193 
192 
192 
193 
193 
192 

193 
and note. 
196 
196 
197 
199 
202 
204 
205 
200 
201 



195 



125 



Consolidation of districts abandonment after five years, 
when takes effect, 
districts , reimbtirsement of town for expenses , 
town committee becomes Board of 

School Visitors, . 
effect of vote to reestablish, 
condemnation of land for school purposes, 

209 (see 
Constables, special, to arrest for truancy, 
appointed by selectmen, 
nominated by school visitors, 
may arrest for disturbance of schools, 

for disturbance of school meetings, 
for damage to school property, . 
County Homes, schools in, . 
Conveyance (see Transportation). 
Crimes, . . . . 

offenses against the person, . . 
public property, . 
public peace and safety, 
public policy. 

Damages, assessment of, when taking land for site of school- 
house, .... 
Danbury, special act relating to schools, 
Dependent and neglected children, homes 
Deposit fund, town, , 

income of paid to town treasury, 
Derby School District, special act relating to schools, 
Distribution of public money, 
Districts, duties and powers, 
how formed, 
united, 
altered, 
dissolved, 
divided, 
are corporations, 
powers, maybe sued, 

hold real estate, 
hold personal property, 
build schoolhouses, 
establish schools, 
purchase school apparatus, 
maintain school library, 
employ teachers, 
pay wages, 
lay taxes, . 
conduct schools, 
boundary lines, 

record of, 
settlement of, 



how provided, 



Section 
191 
207 
206 

208 
207 

174-177) 
37 
37 
37 
37 
37 
37 
86-94 

309-319 

309 

311, 312 

313, 314 

315-319 

175, 176 
page 97 

295 
246-255 
229 
page 98 
223 
137 
135 
135 
135 
135 
136 

137 
137 
137 
137 
137 

137 
137 
137 
137 
137 

137 
137 
138 
138 
139 



126 



Districts, alteration or abolition of, 

parts of districts, 
disposition of funds, 
notice, 
consolidation of, . 

division of, .... 

lying in two or more towns, 
settlement of proportions of indebtedness of 
power of Superior Court in premises, 
employment and payment of teachers by, 
enumeration in, . 
expenses to be paid by town, 
first meeting, how called, 
formation, alteration, and dissolution, . 

notice of, 

formation, alteration, and dissolution, appeal to Supe 

rior Court, 
procedure, . 
funds and property on consolidation or division 
jurisdiction over, if lying in several towns, 
may establish kindergarten schools, 
may take land for site of schoolhouse, . 
may require bond of treasurer and collector, 
may establish kindergarten, 
meetings, . 

when held, 
where held, 
notice of, 

what to specify, 
check list for voting in, 
legal voters in, . 
penalty for illegal vote, 
inmates of almshouse cannot vote , 
conduct of, . 
adjournment, . 
registry list, 

vote by ballot, how ordered and taken, 
special, to vote by ballot, 
may choose own moderator, . 
annual, for election of officers, 
neglect to maintain school, 

receive no State aid in such case, 
officers, ..... 

names to be reported by clerk to school visitors 
records of , . 

penalty for refusing access to, 
boundary lines, 
situated in different towns, money how distributed, 
committee shall employ teachers when authorized, 
may appoint school physician, 



Section 
135 
135 
143 
140 

143 
136 
136- 
144 
145 
137 
187, 218 

233. 235 
50 

135 
140 

141 
142 
143 ' 
147 
39 
174 
166 

39 
150, 186 
150 
151 
152 
152 
156 
153 
. 159 
154 
155 
156 

155 
156 
157 
159 
160 
168 
168 
160 
163 
138 
167 
138 
242, 243 
119. 213 
283 



127. 

Section 
Districts, schoolhouse must be satisfactory to board of school 

visitors, ..... 169 

schoolhouse plan must be approved by board of school 

visitors, . . . . . 170 

site, how changed, . . . . 171 

may be used for other purposes than school, 173 

non-resident pupils in, ..... 172 

extra expenses, incurred by . . . . 240 

formed from school society, .... 60 

registry list, ...... 155 

school in, not kept according to law, . . . 227 

tax in city, . . . . . . . 237 

time of payment to, . . . . . 235 

voters in, . . . . . . . 153, 154 

warnings, power of Superior Court, . . . 141 
to receive no State or town money unless report made 

to school visitors, ..... 241 

nor unless a suitable schoolhouse provided, . 169 
under act of 1 841, . . . . . . . 146 

joint, situated in different towns, . . . 147 

provision to be made for scholars when no school, . 239 

union of small, ...... 239 

District committee, election of, ..... 160 

must have a majority, . . . 162 
duties of, .... . 186, 187 

enumeration of children by, . . 218 

to be reported to school visitors, 187 

limitation of power, . . . . 188 

must be resident of district, . . . 160 
names to be reported to State Board of Edu- 
cation, ..... 124 

in large districts, number of, . . 161 

how chosen, . * . 161 

penalty for failure to call district meeting, 186 

term of office, . . . . 160 

in larger districts, . . 161 

visitation of schools by, . . . 186 

vacancies filled by school visitors, . . 164 
may call special meetings of abolished 

districts, ..... 203 

agent ex oj^cz'o oi district, . . .134,185 

powers and duties : 

give notice of meetings, . . . 152, 186 

special, . . . 186 

provide school rooms, . . . 186 

visit schools, . . . . . 186 

provide text-books, . . . . 186 

suspend incorrigible pupils, . . . 186 
report to the board of school visitors, . 187, 241 

limitation of power to make contracts, . 188 



128 



District committee, may employ teacher, 

shall not employ teacher beyond term of 

office, 
majority required to elect, 
vacancies in large districts, how filled, 
Ecclesiastical society, land of, not to be taken for site of school 

house, 
Elections, city and town, how contested, 
Election of district officers, failure, 
school officers, 
educational purposes. 
Employer must obtain certificate for children under sixteen, 

must be signed by registrar, town 

clerk, teacher, or custodian, 

keep on file certificate of age, . 

show certificate to the secretary or agent of the State 

Board of Education, 

show certificate to the town school officers, 

penalty for failure to have age certificate, 

Employment of children under fourteen, forbidden during 

school hours, 

penalty, .... 

prohibited in certain establishments, 

Employment of children in non-lawful occupations, 

Enumeration of children, by district committee, 

in joint districts, 

by school visitor or person appointed 

by school visitors, 
by town school committee, 
fees for, .... 
form of return to school visitors, 
correction of return, 
certificate to Comptroller by school 

visitors, 
penalty for refusing to give age of 

child, 
in county homes, 
Estimate, of cost of schools for each year by school visitors and 

selectmen, 
Evening schools, towns may establish, 

towns having ten thousand or more inhabitants 

must establish, 
attendance compulsory at, 
law as to, how enforced, 
all three school visitors shall supervise, 
returns to Comptroller, . 
branches, ..... 
petition for high school branches, 
duties of school officers, . 
state grant to, . 



Section 
119, 213 

119 
162 
161 

177 
102 
164 
270 
271 
24 

24 
24 

24 
24 
24 

21 
21 

23 

309 

187, 218 

187 

218 
221 
218 
219 
220 



231 
80 

76 
78 
78 

77 
79 
76 
76 
77 
79 



129 



Evening schools, state grant to, method of obtaining, 
number of sessions, 
towns may be relieved from establishing 

when, ..... 
report of to state board of education, . 
Examination, of teachers by school visitors, 

State Board of Education, . 
I town school committee, 

' board of education, 

Excuses, legal, for non-attendance, lack of clothing, 

mental or physical disability 
Exits from public buildings, .... 

Expenses, of teachers' meetings, . . . ' . 

schools in consolidated districts, 
in city school districts, . 
of maintaining schools, . 
estimates of, 

in excess of appropriation. 
Expulsion of pupils, . . 

Eyesight, tests prepared by state board of education, 
used by teachers when, 
may be examined by school physician, 

Factories, inspection of by school visitors or school committee 
Fees, of assessors of taxes, .... 

magistrates on prosecution of vagrants, . 
school visitors, for enumeration of children, 
ofl&cers, for arresting truants, 
registrars for recording date of birth. 
Fire escapes, ...... 

Flag, exercises to be held, .... 

Flags, to be provided by selectmen, 
penalty for not furnishing, . 
foreign not to be displayed, . 

penalt5^ 
Forfeitures, for delay in making returns, . 

making fraudulent certificate, . 
misapplication of school moneys, 
neglect to support schools, 
of clerk to furnish access to records, penalty, 
report names of district offi 
cers to school visitors 
penalty, 
by selectmen for failure to provide flags, 
if schools not kept according to law, 
, remitted by secretary of State Board of Educa 

tion, ..... 

Form, of return of enumeration by a committee, . 

school visitor, 
certificate of school visitors to comptroller. 
Fraudulent certificates, ..... 



Section 
79 
79 

8i 

79 
ii8 

4 

J95 

Ii8 

l8 

i8 

290 

2 

201 

237 

233. 235 

231 

235 
186 

5 

5 

286 



28 
181 

34 

218 

33 

24 

291 

53 
52 
54 
319 
319 
114 
245 
228 
238 
167 



"3: 



163 

54 
10 

244 
219 
220 
223 

245 



130 

Section 

Funds, school, dispositiou of on alteration of districts, . . 143 

disposition of on abolition of districts, . . 199 

repeal of vote of abolition, . 206 

income of society or district,* . . . 230 

town deposit fund, . 229, 248, 253 

permanent, treasurer to be elected, . . 55 

Girls' Connecticut Industrial School (see Connecticut Industrial 

School for Girls), . . . " . . . 301-304 

vagrant, committed to Connecticut Industrial School at 

request of parent or guardian, .... 304 

procedure (see Truants). 

Governor shall designate arbor and bird day, . . . 51 

Graded schools, may be established, .... 137 

Grant, high school, ....... 68 

amount of , . . . . . 69 

procedure for obtaining, ... 70 

library, school, . . . . . . 216 

public, ...... 267 

evening school, ...... 79 

state, on basis of enumeration, .... 223 

average attendance, . . . 224 

method of payment, ..... 224 

average attendance, ..... 224 

Health, ........ 279-294 

officers, powers and duties, .... 293 

town, ...... 294 

examination of children as to, . . . . 286 

High school, subjects may be taught in evening schools, . 76 

town may establish, ..... 65 

committee of , . . . . . . 66 

elected by ballot, ... 66 
number, . . . .66 

tie, . . . . . 66 

vacancies, how filled, . . 67 
may employ teachers when author- 
ized, . . . . 119, 213 

duties of school visitors or town school committee, 11 1 
powef s of school visitors or town school committee 

over, ...... 67 

shall superintend, ... 67 

examine teachers, . . 67 

give certificates, ... 67 

visit schools, ... 67 

revoke certificates, . . 67 

State aid for library, . . . , ' . 216 

support of ...... . 65 

town not maintaining high school may pay 

tuition fees of children in non-local school, when, 68 



131 

Section 

High school tuition fees, ...... 69 

paid by town treasurer, . . 69 

cost of conveyance to, ... . 72 

approved by state board of 
education for conveyance 
grant, ... 72 
endowed, state board of education may examine, 71 
state board of education may approve, 71 
incorporated, state board of education may ex- 
amine, . . . . 71 

state board, of edtication may ap- 
prove, .... 71 

Hygiene, examination in, . . . . . . 118 

must be taught, . . . . . .43 

must be taught in normal schools, . . . 43 

not to be taught in high schools, ... 43 

normal schools must teach, . . . . 43 

penalty for failure to teach, . .• . . 44 

Imbeciles, school for, . . . . . . . 308 

Improvements, towns must be reimbursed for, . . . 206 

Incidentals, money raised to secure state aid for library, . 216 

expended for books for indigent pupils, . 186 
Industrial Schocft for Girls, who may be sent to, . . .36, 304 

what authority may commit, . . 304 

Instruction of children, . . . . . . 17 

agent to secure, .... 6 

Irregfularity of attendance, . . . . . .17 

Janitors, may be appointed constables by selectmen, . . 37 

Joint board of school visitors and selectmen: 

action if expenditure exceeds appropriation, . 235 

action if expenses unnecessary and extravagant, . 240 
meeting of, . . . . . .231 

notify committees of estimated cost, . . . 231 

fix wages of teachers, ..... 233 

incidental expenses, ..... 233 

notify districts of estimates, . . . . 233 

records of, . . . . . . 234 

appropriation by to districts, .... 242 

expenses of ...... . 243 

Justice of the Peace, prosecution of truants before, . . 32 

Kindergarten schools, may be established, .... 39 

who may attend, .... 39 



Labor, child, see Employment. 

Law, school kept according to, 

to be maintained, required by, 

of higher order than is required by, 

Leaving certificates, .... 
granted by school officers, . 



123, 227, 235 

233 

240 

19 

19 



132 



Section 
Libraries, penalties for injuries to books, . . . .312 

school, account of state aid to, . . . . 8 

committee, . . . . . 121 

duties, . . . .121 

establishment of, . • . . . . 137 

expenses incurred by districts reckoned among 

incidental expenses, ..... 216 

selection of books for, . . . . 216 

state aid to, .... . 216 

based upon actual attendance, . . . 216 

in consolidated districts, .... 200 

supervision of, by school visitors, or town 

school committee, .... 111,216 

joint board may appropriate money, . . 217 

town school committee may appropriate money, 217 

appropriation expended by committee, . 217 

, books and apparatus property of town, . 121, 217 

public, • . . . . . . . 256-269 

establishment, ..... 256 

appropriation to, . . . . . 257 

gifts to, . . . . • . 259 

directors, . . . . . ' . 260 

election of , . . . . 261 

women eligible to board, . . 265 

state grant to, .... . 267 

Library conjimittee, Connecticut public, constitution of, . . 262 

expenses of , . . . 262 

duties, .... 263, 264 

women eligible to, . . 265 

reports to, . . ; 266 

expenditure for free public libra- 
ries, .... 268 

shall report to the governor, . 263 

state treasurer shall pay bills of, 269 

Matron, may be appointed, ..... 288 

Maintenance of public schools in consolidated towns, . . 201 

Majority required to elect district officers, ... . . 162 

Manchester, ninth district, special act relating to schools, . p. 100 

Manufactories, inspection of, by.school officers, ... 28 

Meetings, district (see District Meetings). 

penalty for disturbing, ..... 314 

Minors, not to loiter or play in billiard or pool rooms, . . 318 

Model primary schools, at normal schools, .... 16 

Moderator, chosen in district meetings, . . . . 159 

powers of, ...... 272 

penalty for neglect to make return , . . . loi 

Music, towns may direct school visitors or town school committed 

to employ teacher of, . . . . .42 

salary of teachers, . . . . . . 42 

towns shall pay salary, . . . . 42 



133 



Section 


43. 


210 




ii8 


P- 


lOI 


P- 


I02 


P- 


103 


P- 


106 




12 




12 




12 




12 




12 




13 




13 



Narcotics, effects of, taught, ..... 

examination in effects of, ... 

Naugatuck, special act relating to schools, . 
Neglected children (see Dependent Children). 
New Britain, special act relating to schools, 
New Haven, special act relating to schools, 
New London, special act relating to schools, 
Normal School, annual appropriation, 

state board of education shall maintain, 
maintenance, .... 

training schools, condition concerning, . 

agreement to establish a 
thorized, 
number of pupils, rules concerning admission, 
tuition gratuitous, .... 

persons admitted must declare intention to teach 

in state, ...... 13 

town school officers send names of suitable can- 
didates, ...... 14 

funds expended by state board of education, . 15 

appointment of teachers, . . . , 15 

account filed semiannually with comptroller, . 15 

report to the governor annually, . . . 15 

model schools established by state board of edu- 
cation, ...... 16 

must teach hygiene, .... 43 

Norwalk, special act relating to schools, . . , • P- 107 

Norwich, Falls district, special act relating to schools, ., . p. 107 

Greeneville district, special act relating to schools, . p. 109 

Notice, of district meeting, . . . . . . 152 

proposition to form, alter, or unite school districts, . 140 

abolition of district, ..... 202 

Nurse, may be appointed, ...... 288 

O^th, of clerk, ....... 160 

person enumerating children, .... 219 

school visitors to returns, ..... 220 

may be administered by school visitors, all three, . . 128 

Offenses, against public property, .... .311,312 

policy, ..... 315-319 

peace and safety, .... 313, 314 

the person, . . . . . 309 

health and safety, .... 279-294 

Orange, Union School District of, special act relating to schools, p. iii 

Parents, must cause children to attend, . . 17 

must cause children to be instructed in certain subjects, 17 
must cause children over fourteen to attend when 

notified by' town school officers, . . . 19 

must pay fee for recording age of child, ... 24 

notice of infectious disease to be given to, . . 287 



134 



Parents, shall make oath to age of child, . . . . 

shall supply evidence of age, . . . . 

penalties for failure to instruct children, . 

false statement concerning age of child, . 
to be notified of hearing in truancy cases, 
Paupers, what may vote in district meeting, . . . 

Penalties, for not instructing children under one's care, . 

employment of children under fourteen during school 
hours, ....... 

employment of children under fovirteen in factories 
and stores, ...... 

failure to have age certificates of children under i6, 
illegal employment of children, . . , . 

false statement as to age of children by parents, 
refusal to give name and age of child, . 
delay in making returns, ..... 

illegal voting at district meetings, 

refusing to accept school office or perform its duties, 

failure to report names of district committees to 

school visitors, . . 

refusing access to school records, 
failure to call district meeting, . ■ . 
failure to support schools, 
fraudulent certificate by a school visitor or town school 
committee, ..... 

for selectmen's neglecting to provide flag, 
for false testimony by women as to qualifications for 
voting, ...... 

injuries to schoolhouse, .... 

employing children in exhibitions, etc. , 

permitting minors in pool room , 

interrupting schools, .... 

Physicians, school appointment of, . .' 

duties, ...... 

children to be referred to for examination, 
Physiology and Hygiene, text-books, . 

instruction in, . 

teachers must pass examination in, 
penalty if not taught. 
Plurality elects town officers, . . , . 

does not elect district committee, 
Police, may arrest truants, ..... 

Police Court, prosecution of truants before, 
Pool-rooms, minors not permitted in. 
Private schools, attendance at, . 
must keep registers, 

prescribed by state board of educa 
tion, .... 

subject to inspection by agent of 
state board of education , . 



Section 
24 
24 
18 
22 

34 

154 
18 



23 
24 
26 

22 
222 
"3 

159 
160 

163 
167 

186 

238, 241 

245 

54 

276 
3" 
309 
318 

313 

. 283 

284 

285 

43 

43 

118, 210 

44 

98 

162 

31 
30 
318 
20 
20 



135 



Private schools, must make reports and returns, . 

no financial report, 
Probate Courts, may commit girls to Connecticut industrial 
school, ..... 

Property, how divided, in case of joint districts, . 
Public money, how drawn, ..... 

annual appropriation and distribution, 
how paid when districts lie in several towns, 
withheld if district has no schoolhouse, 

district committee fail to 
port to school visitors, 
misapplication of, penalty for. 
Pupils, how admitted to Normal schools, . 

disobedient may be suspended or expelled, 
poor may have books provided, 
non-resident, may be admitted to school when, 
Records, of districts to be opened to inspection, . 

pertaining to schools, to be preserved and trans 
mitted, ...... 

of town, to contain district bounds, 

district bounds, ..... 

town school committee, .... 

board of school visitors, .... 

Reform School, who may be sent to, . . . 297 

what authority may commit. 
Reformation, of children, 
Registers, for schools, form of, prescribed by state board of 
education, ..... 

kept by teachers, . . ■ . 

returned by teach€rs, .... 

supplied to private schools. 
Registrars of births, may issue certificate of age, . 

compensation, ..... 

of voters — duties of , .... 

Registry lists, how prepared, .... 

compensation for preparing. 
Report, to Governor by state board of education, . 

Secretary of state board of education, by agent, 

school visitors, 

by town school committee, 

board of education, 

school visitors, by acting visitors, 

district committees, 
towns, by secretary of board of visitors or town school 
committee, ..... 

towns, by school committees, 

school visitors and selectmen, 
districts by board of education, . 
libraries, to Connecticut Public Library Committee, 
» normal school to Governor, 

on oath before school ofl&cers, . . . - 



Section 
20 
20 

304 
198 
122 
223 
242 
169 

241 
228 

13, 14 
186 
186 
172 
i67 

127 

50 

138 

113 

113 

298, 299 

297, 299 

295-308 

2 

215 

215 

20 

24 

158 

155 

155, 156 

158 

2 

6 

"3 

"3 

62 

"5 

187 

"3 
195 
233 
60 
366 

15 

128 



136 



Returns (see Blanks). 

to Comptroller by district boards of education, 
school visitors, 
form of, 
to be lodged with town treaS' 
urers, 
Returns, school visitors by district committee, 

correction of, 
what included in 
public money withheld if returns not made, 
Revocation of teachers' certificates, 

Safety, public, ...... 

Salary of superintendent, ..... 

part to be paid by supervision district 
teachers, when to be paid, 
Sanitation, ...... 

of schoolhouses, 
penalty if inadequate, . 
Scholars, admission of nonresident, 

indigent, may be furnished with books, 
returns of, between certain ages, 
suspension or expulsion of. 
Schools, branches taught in, 
must be maintained, 

how long annually, 
open to children over five, 

over four in certain cases, 
neglect of district to keep, 
union of small, . . . . 

penalty for disturbing, . . 

when discontinued, provision for the children, 

visitation of, . 

by committee, 
kindergarten, .... 

evening, ..... 

trade, ..... 

for boys, truants may be committed to, . 
School books (see Text-Books). 
School committees, town, .... 

meetings of, how called, 

secretary, duties of, 

appoint acting visitor, 

examine teachers, 

cannot be employed as teacher, 

approve library books and apparatus, 

make returns of persons over four and 

under sixteen, 
return to State Board of Education 
the names and addresses of teachers, 



Section 

62 

79. 122 

220, 223 

220 

187, 218 
220 
122 
241 
118 

279-294 

131 

131 

235 

279-294 

280 

281 

172 

47, 186 

122 

186 

38 

38 

38 

38 

38 

168, 238 

239 
313 
239 
"5 
186 

39 

76, 80 

82-85 

32 

195 
112 

113 
115, 116 
ii8 
120 
121 



137 



School committees, town, hear parents when school accommoda 
tions not furnished, . 
select books for libraries, 
make rules for management of books 
shall superintend high schools, 

evening schools, 
inspect factories, 
may consent to attendance in non-local 

high schools, . 
may consent to conveyance grant, 
may appoint superintendent, , 

may fix salary, . 
may organize supervision district, 
may admit to school children over 

four, 
may purchase and loan text-books to 

pupils, 
may make regulations, 
may prescribe studies, 
must choose officers, . 
must prescribe rules, . 
must prescribe text-books, 
must superintend school libraries, 
must approve plans for schoolhouses, 
must superintend high and graded 
schools, .... 

must certify average number attend- 
ing evening schools to Comptroller, 
must certify to. Comptroller . that 
schools have been kept according 
to law, .... 

must report to State Board of Educa- 
tion concerning evening schools, 
must report to town, . 
secretary shall certify salary of super- 
intendent to State Board of Edu- 
cation, .... 
may petition for superintendent, 
may prescribe supplementary books, 
may require children to be vaccinated, 
shall preserve books and documents, 
may administer oath, . 
may appoint school physicians, 
two-thirds vote of to change text-books, 
officers, . . . . • . 
School fund, distribution of income of , . 

to districts lying in two 
or more towns, 
to towns forming single 
districts, 



Section 

48 
216 
216 
67 
77 
28 

68 

72 

129 

129 

130 

38 

45 
45 
38 



79 



223 



79 
113 



131 
133 
125 
126 
127 
128 
283 
125 
III 
223 

242 

223 



138 



Section 



63 
137 
281 
171 
171 
169 
3" 
313 
170 
169 
174, 175, 176 
177 
173 
291 
279 
379 



32^ 



School fund, distribution of income of, to districts formed from 

societies, 
Schoolhouse, authority of districts as to, . 

is a public building, . . . 

change of site of , . 

fixing site for, . . . ... 

must be kept to satisfaction of school visitors, 
penalty for injuring, ..... 

entering, ..... 

Schoolhouse, plans must be approved by school visitors, 

support withdrawn from districts having none, 
taking land for site, .... 

land of ecclesiastical society not to be taken, 

use of, out of school hours decided by district, 

to be provided with safe exits, 

to be kept clean and wholesome, 

to be well ventilated, .... 

Schoolhouses, licenses to sell intoxicating liquors within two 

hundred feet of, not to be granted. 
School societies (see Societies, school). 
School visitors (see Visitors, school). 
School year, begins July 15, ends July 14, 

length of term in weeks, 
Selectmen, duties and powers, ... 50 and note, p. 30 

to draw order on treasurer for payment of bills for 
text-books bought by acting visitor for indigent 
children, ..... 

hear appeal from town school officers, 
may require school officers to make legal arrange 
ments, ...... 

shall manage town property pertaining to schools, 
cause boundary lines of districts to be recorded 
call first meeting in new district, 
must approve commitment of truants, . 
may allow fees for arresting truants, . 
may appoint special constables to arrest truants, 
must leave warning of town meeting with town clerk 
determine number of town school committee, 
to furnish flag, ..... 

duties in connection with debts of district, 
joint board with school visitors, 
Sentence, suspension of, .... . 

Sheriffs, may arrest truants, ..... 

Site for schoolhouse, fixing, ..... 

• appeal to superior court, 

taking land for, 

land of ecclesiastical society not to be 
taken for. 
Small schools, discontinuance of , . 
School money, misapplication of , . 



232 
38 



47 
49 

49 

50 

50 

50 

32 

33 

37 

56 

192 

52 

204 

231 

18 

31 

171 

175. 176 

174, 2og 

177 
239 

228 



139 



Secretary of the board of visitors, . . . . iii 

state board of education, how appointed, 

may remit forfeitures in certain cases, 
report to Comptroller list of delinquent towns, 
draw orders for library money, 
furnish blanks and registers to private schools, 
may inspect registers of private schools, 
may inspect certificates of age, 
may investigate age of children, . 
Societies, ecclesiastical, land of, may not be taken for site of 
schoolhouse, .... 

school, transfer of property and obligations 
records of, ... 

property of, 
debts and obligations, 
organized under the act of 1855, become school 

districts, .... 

choose board of education, 
duties and powers of districts so organized, 
apportionment of public money to, 
board of education of, 
Special acts relating to towns, Ansonia, . 

Bridgeport, 
Danbury, . 
Derby, 

Manchester, Ninth district, 
Naugatuck, 
New Britain, 
New Haven, 
New London, 
Nor walk, . 
Norwich, Falls district, 

Greeneville district. 
Orange, Union school district of, 
Waterbury, . . p 

Windham, . 
Statistics, town school committee, .... 

board of school visitors, . . " . 

Studies, to be taught in public schools, ... 
Superintendent of schools, ..... 
how appointed, . 
duties, .... 
compensation, fixed by the town, 
salary of, 

duties of, . . . 

majority vote to elect, . 
Superintendent, employed by supervision committee, 
salary, 

eligibility, ..... 
Supervision district, how organized, 



Section 

113. 117 

r 

10 

II, 114 

216 

20 

20 

24 

25 

177 

57 

58 

59. 61 

57 

60 
60 
60 

63. 
62 

94 
96 

97 

98 

100 

p. lOI 

p. 102 

p. 103 

p. 106 

p. 107 

p. 107 

p. 109 

p. Ill 

112-116 

p. 116 

"3 

"3 

38 

116, 129 

116 

116 

116, 117 

129 

129 

129 

130 

131 

132 

130 



P- 

P- 
P- 
P- 
P- 



I40 



forma- 



school- 



Supervision of schools, 
Supplies, free, 

Superior Court, appeal to, from proceedings relating to 
tion, etc., of school districts, . 
proceedings to take land for sites of 

houses, .... 
proceedings in case of consolidation of joint 
districts, . 
Support of schools, . 

high schools, 
evening schools, 
four-mill tax. 
Support of schools, forfeiture for neglect by town, 
Suspension from school. 



Section 
129-133 

45 

139 

175 

198 

218-225 

65 

79 

225 

238 

186 



Taxes, collectors of, . 

districts may levy, 
by city districts, 
assessors, 
school districts, 

on what assessment list laid, 
school district, mode of assessment, 

of real estate lying 
partly in and part- 
ly out of a district, 
omission from town list, . 
clerical omissions corrected, 
owned by town, 
board of relief, 
deductions for indebtedness, 
change of title after completion of grand 
list, 
abolished districts, . . ... 

selectmen shall collect, 
town for high schools, 

equalization in consolidated districts, 
four mills for support of schools, . 
Teachers, certificates of, . 

necessary to employment, 
revocation, 
duty to keep registers, 

if not kept, cannot 
wages, . 
duty to obtain certificates, 
employment of by school visitors, 

district committees, . 
districts, 

board of education, . 
town committee, 
high school committee, 
dismissal of, by town committee. 



160, 164, 165 

137 

237 

. 180, 184 

137 
184, note I 
. 178, 184 



180 
i8a 
183 
179 
181 
181 

183 
204 
205 

65 
196 
225 
118 
212 
118 
215 

215 
212 

40, 119 
213 

137 

60, 213 

195, 213 

66, 213 

195 



141 



Teachers, wages of, how paid, .... 

when to be paid, . 

examination of, . . . . . 60, ii 

State Board of Education, 
school visitors, . 
boards of education, 
town committee, 
high schools, examination of, . 
certificates of. 
Term of office, of district committees, 

in larger districts, 
Term of office, town committees, .... 

members of State Board of Education, . 
school visitors, .... 

Term of school, children must attend during. 
Text-books, free, ...... 

State Board of Education may direct what shall be 
used in State, .... 

change of , . . 

on physiology and hygiene, . . . • 

towns may purchase for free distribution, . 
committee must supply indigent scholars, . 
supplementary reading may be prescribed, . 
purchased by the town, 
to be furnished to indigent children by acting 
visitor. 
Tie in election of school visitors, . . , . 

Tobacco, sale of to minors, ..... 

use by minors, ..... 

Town clerk, to certify election of school visitors to Secretary of 

State, ... 
Teachers may issue certificate of age, 

cannot be school visitor or member of town school 
committee, ..... 

of music, ...... 

in County Homes, how examined and appointed. 
Teachers' meetings, ...... 

Temporary homes, schools in, 

county commissioners may establish, 

employ and pay 
teachers, 
expense of paid by county, 
children, how enumerated, 
schools open as in districts, 
employment and payment of teachers, 
books and apparatus, . 
examination of teachers, 
certificates for teachers, 
acting visitor, .... 



Section 

235 

235. 236 

19s, 210 

4, 211 

210 

62 

195 

67 

67 

160 

161 

193 
I 

106 
17 
45 

2 

2, 125 

43 

45 

186 

125 

I2S 

47 
no 
316 
317 

99 
24 

120, 214 

42 

90 

2 



90 
86, 87 



90, 91 
90 
90 
90 
90 



142 



Temporary homes, apportionment of expense between town and 
county in certain cases, 
expense when town maintains school. 
Towns, must furnish school accommodations, 

by transportation or otherwise, 
procedure when town refuses or neglects, 
hearing by school visitors, . 
appeal, .... 

consolidation of districts of, 
districts lying in different, jurisdiction over, 
expenses of, 
Towns may abolish school districts, 

vote how taken, 
• direct that teachers may be employed by school 
visitors, .... 

direct that teachers of music be employed by school 

visitors or town school committee, . 
establish high schools, 

and choose committee therefor, 
establish evening schools, 

form, alter, unite, and dissolve school districts, 
make regulations concerning truants, 
appoint truant officers, 
take land for school purposes, 
elect treasurer of permanent school funds, . 
must maintain schools 36 weeks, 

unless average attendance be 
eight or less, . 
pay expenses of district schools, 

exception if city in 

town limits, 

pay high school tuition fee, when, 

be reimbursed by State in part for high school 

tuition fee, .... 
pay transportation in certain cases, . 
may receive high school conveyance grant, 
establish kindergarten, . 
vote free text-books. 
Town clerk may issue certificate of age, . 
Town school officers: 

eligibility, sex no disqualification for school 
office, . . . . . 

vacancies, how filled, . . . . 

selectmen may fill vacancies in 
certain cases, 
elected by ballot, .... 

when appointed, . . . . 

number of , . . 

change of number of , . 

plurality shall elect except when otherwise 
provided, • . 



Section 

93 
94 
48 
48 
48 
48 

49 

189 

147 
242 
189 
190 

40 

42 

65 

66 

76, 80 

135 
29 
30 

209 
55 
38 

38 
38, 235 

237 
68 

69 
72 

73 
39 
45 
24 



103 
104 

104 
97 
97 
97 
97 

98 



143 



Town school officers : return of election, 
official term, 
penalty for refusing to accept or perform 
duties, 
Training department of normal schools, 
Transportation of children, . 

high school, paid by town 
Treasurer, school district, election of, 
to give bonds, 
term of office, 
duties of, 

town school funds, 
Truants, towns may make by-laws concerning, 
impose penalties, 
may be arrested without warrant, 

committed to Connecticut School for Boys, 
prosecution of, 
fees for arresting, . 

may be arrested by special constables, 
warning and hearing, 
judgment may be suspended, 
parent or guardian to be notified, 
Truant officers, .... 

town and city officers may appoint under by-law 
must present written statement of arrest, 
Tuition at Normal School gratuitous, 

fees, high school, ..... 

to meet extra expenses of high or graded schools, 



Section 

99 
lOO 

lOI 

12 

48, 239 

72, 75 

160 

166 

160 

165 

, 55 

29 

29 

31 

32 

29-35 

33 

37 

34 

35 

34 

30 

30 

33 

13 

68 

240 



Union districts, under act of 1841, . 

of small districts, .... 
scholars to be provided for, 

Vacancies, in State Board of Education, . 
district committees, 
boards of school visitors, 
in town school committee, 
Vaccination of school children, 

may be paid for by the town in some cases, 
Vagfrant girls, .... 

arrest of. 
Vagrants, regulations and by-laws concerning, 
Ventilation of schoolhouse, . 
Visitors, school, officers, 

compensation, 

classes, 

election, 

manner of election, 

election to be certified to Secretary of State, 

number, ..... 



146 
239 
239 

I 
164 
106 

195 

282 

126 

36 

36 

29 

279, 280 

III 

117 

106 

97 

no 

99 
106 



144 



Visitors, school meetings, how called, 

organization, ..... 

secretary, duties of, . . . . 

duty to give certificate to Comptroller that 
schools have been kept according to 
law, ..... 
certify to Comptroller concerning even- 
ing schools, .... 
give certificate to selectmen that schools 

have been kept according to law, 
report names of teachers and district 
committees to State Board of Edu- 
cation, ..... 
make estimate to towns of cost of 
schools, .... 

make complaint to board of health when 
sanitary condition of schoolhouse is 
unsatisfactory, . 
to regulate libraries, 
superintend high schools, . 
may appoint acting visitor not of their 

number, 

may give written consent to attendance 
in non-local high school, 
joint duties with selectmen, . 217, 23 

penalty for fraudulent certificate of, 
power to administer oath, 

admit nonresident pupils, 

change sites of schoolhouses in certain 

cases, .... 

open schools in districts neglecting to 

keep one, . . 

duty to require vaccination of children, 

change text-books, 

prescribe supplementary reading, 

powers superseded in districts having board of 

education, .... 

school committee to be board of visitors if union 

system is abandoned, . 
duties and powers, . . .11 

to approve plans for schoolhouses, 
examine teachers, 

of high schools, 
sign teachers" certificates, 
give certificates to teachers, 

of high schools 
revoke teachers' certificates, 

of high schools 
inspect factories, 
employ teachers when authorized, 40 
of music, 



Section 




112 




no 




"3 




223 




79 


123, 


235 




124 


231, 


233 




280 


216, 


217 


67, 


III 



116 

68 

233. 242 

245 

128 

172 

171 

168 
126 
125 
125 

62 

208 

118, 119 
III 
118 

67 
210 
118 

67 
118 

67 

28 

119, 213 

42 



145 



Visitors, school, duty to make arrangements for children to at- 
tend school when there is no school 
in their district, 
to superintend evening schools 

report concerning 
approve of the union of small schools, 
make returns of enumeration to Comp 

tr oiler, . . . , 

report to town, 
purchase text-books for free distribu 

tion if so directed, 
may admit to school children under five 
may appoint school physician 
appoint acting visitor (see acting visi- 
tors), .... 
appoint superintendent, . 

may fix salary, 
organize supervision district, 
consent to conveyance grant, . 
prescribe studies, 
hear parents when school accommoda' 

tions not furnished, 
report to State Board of Education con 

cerning evening schools, 
examine teachers, 
cannot be employed as teachers, 
approve library books and apparatus, 
secretary shall certify salary of superin- 
tendent to State Board of Education, 
superintend high and graded schools, 
prescribe rules, 
prescribe text-books, 
petition for superintendent, 
approve books and apparatus, . 
appoint high school committee, 
preserve books and documents, 
nominate special constables to arrest 

truants, 
select books for libraries, 
make rules for management of books, 
secretary of, duties in relation to state 

grant, . 
vacancies, how filled. 
Visitation of schools, . . . . / 

schoolhouse to be visited, 
register to be inspected, 
library examined, 
studies investigated, 
by district committee, 
VoterSj legal, in district meetings, . 
list of, how made put, 



Section 



239 
77 
79 

239 

122 
113 

45 

38 

283 

115 
I2g 
129 
130 
72 
38 

48 

79 

118 

120, 214 

121 

131 
III 
III 
III 

133 
121 

67 
127 

37 
216 
216 

226 
106 
"5 
"5 
115 
115 
"5 
186 
153. 154 
155 



1 



mS.'!^''^ °^ CONGRESS 



146 



Wages of teachers, paid by districts, 
when payable, . 
certificate necessary to, 
Warnings of town, city, borough, and other meetings, 
district meetings, how given, 

what to specify, . 
Waterbury, special act relating to schools, 
Windham, special act relating to schools, . 
Weeks of school, number of. 
Women, are eligible to certain offices, 
may vote for school officers, 
registration of, 
separate voting lists, 
" women's ballots," 
names to be put on list " to be made," 
to qualify in same manner as men, 
to have separate ballot-box, 
penalty for false testimony, 
Wire, barbed, prohibited near schoolhouse. 



019 749 582 



Year school. 



length of, 



Section 

137 

235, 236 

212 

56 

152 

152 

, II2-I16 

p. 116 

38 

265 

273, 275 
276 

274 
278 
274 

274, 276 
278 
276 
292 

232 

38 



^ LiBRftRV OF CONGRESS 



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